The week ending November 17, 2025, was a turning point in the geopolitical and discursive developments of the world, in which three parallel crises, each in its own way, challenged the future of the international order. In Eastern Europe, Ukraine, with the arrival of its third winter of war, is on the verge of a humanitarian and strategic crisis; a crisis that will test not only Kiev’s defensive capabilities, but also the sustainability of the Western alliance in supporting the country. In the domestic arena of the United States, Donald Trump, by filing extensive legal lawsuits against major global media outlets, has started a new war to redefine the boundaries of freedom of expression and media power; a war whose consequences are spreading beyond the borders of the United States. And on the third layer, new revelations about Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein have shaken the moral-political discourse of the United States and shown how the skeletons of the past can become political weapons of the present. These three seemingly independent axes actually tell a single narrative of the crisis of legitimacy, power, and truth in the contemporary international system.