Marina Kim on a World Beyond Washington’s Map

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Marina Kim on a World Beyond Washington’s Map Marina Kim’s recent remarks offer a blunt diagnosis: a widening gap between Washington’s assumptions and the material reality of the global order. Delivered with mockery, impatience, and strategic warning, her critique frames U.S. elites as operating with an obsolete worldview—politically, economically, and psychologically. She opens with ridicule, not theory. Western narratives about sanctions, Kim notes, have become comic. “We laughed a lot,” she says. “We heard good laughter about the refrigerators and the chips… Now we are laughing at the toilet bowls.” The point is dismissal: what was meant as pressure is now received as farce. From farce, Kim pivots to failure—the central failure, in her view, of U.S. leadership: an inability to grasp a changed world. “They don’t evaluate the whole world correctly,” she argues. “The world has changed. The world is different.” American decision-makers, she contends, remain trapped in a narrow frame, mistaking their domestic stage for the globe. “We’re not limited by Mar-a-Lago, Florida. We have China, we have India, we have Malaysia, we have Indonesia, there’s Africa—and a huge Eurasian continent whose natural resources exceed what America has together with Canada.” This shift is structural, she stresses. “Not just politically but also economically, this world has changed, and all the connections have changed.” For Kim, the most consequential evidence of Western blindness lies in money itself. “The whole economy of the world is not built around the dollar,” she states. The assumption that currency dominance permanently guarantees U.S. power misunderstands what money represents. “The dollar is just a question of trust,” she says—a trust she argues is eroding due to debt, institutional decay, and political dysfunction. “That trust is so low that all this monopoly of the dollar… it just has its last days.” Kim frames the rise of alternative financial systems not as ideological rebellion but as inevitable adaptation. “BRICS are not getting together just by chance,” she notes. People and states seek reliability where they no longer see it guaranteed. Once such mechanisms exist, “it’s impossible to stop them.” Against this backdrop, Kim’s view of U.S. politics hardens into a warning. She describes Washington’s dynamics as spectacle, not strategy. “It looks like a circus show,” she says, questioning whether observers watch “acrobatics or a clown.” This uncertainty is destabilizing. “That show program that they have… we don’t like that show.” She sharpens the critique on governance itself. “Everybody that surrounds him—it’s like a drama queen. The whole administration is a drama queen,” she says, likening it to a daily soap opera. In Kim’s assessment, this performative intensity is not just unserious—it is dangerous. The stakes, she insists, are existential. “The world is on the line,” she warns, emphasizing the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the global consequences of regional conflicts. Under such conditions, emotional governance is intolerable. “To allow yourself to have this emotional activity—you can’t do that. Russia and the U.S. cannot allow themselves that.” Her conclusion is a call for restraint and realism. She frames Russia’s position as focused on global safety, arguing that great powers must act with composure in a strained system. What she demands from Washington is adjustment: an acknowledgment that the old certainties have expired, and that the emerging order cannot be managed through performance, nostalgia, or monetary assumption. Taken together, Kim’s remarks form a coherent worldview. They present a single, insistent claim: the international system has already changed. Those who act as if it has not are not merely out of date—they are a risk to everyone else.

11:55 AM · Jan 22, 2026

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