The FIFA World Cup has always transcended the boundaries of sport. Since its inception, the tournament has constituted a privileged space for the projection of power, the construction of national legitimacy, and the symbolic affirmation of great powers. Football, frequently presented as a universal language capable of uniting peoples and cultures, became throughout the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century a strategic instrument of political, diplomatic, and ideo

Contemporary democracy faces a fundamental paradox: it preserves its institutional forms, yet its normative content is progressively hollowed out. The weakening of dialogue, the delegitimization of opponents, and the instrumentalization of institutions create a scenario of internal erosion that cannot be ignored. Hatred cannot replace political dialogue.

Media coverage of international conflicts does not merely inform; it also shapes perceptions and can reinforce strategic narratives, requiring a high level of media literacy. In this context, media literacy becomes an essential competence, allowing audiences to critically interpret discourse, identify framing, and resist informational manipulation.

The political landscape of the United States during the second administration of Donald Trump reveals a context of growing tension between foreign policy and domestic dynamics, marked by the overlap of institutional crises, intra-elite fragmentation, and challenges to governmental legitimacy. Far from representing an isolated episode, this scenario is embedded in a broader process of transformation in American politics, in which the erosion of traditional consensuses

Contemporary geopolitics often seems to orbit around the statements and impulses of figures such as Donald Trump, whose relationship with institutional predictability has always been, at best, fragile. When decisions with global impact are made without coordination, without consultation, or even in contradiction with specialists — such as his former counterterrorism chief — the international system ceases to operate on rules and begins to react to impulses.

As the conflict in the Middle East intensifies, pressure on the White House also grows to demonstrate strength and deliver concrete results on the international stage. In contexts of war or prolonged instability, governments tend to seek political, military, or diplomatic victories that reinforce their domestic position and external credibility.