The world can’t say it hasn’t been warned about U.S. President Donald Trump (as of noon, Washington, D.C., time on Jan. 20). We share the apocalyptic predictions of the disasters that will take place during a Trump presidency. But we hope we’re wrong.

In the best-case scenario for Ukraine, Trump will realize that Russian President Vladimir Putin does not share American values of democracy, human rights and respect for international law. He will pick up quickly on Putin’s overriding aim of preserving his kleptocracy and weakening Western institutions and democracies.

With this new-found realization, the Trump administration will hopefully become much tougher on Russia than U.S. President Barack Obama, whose policy on Ukraine is best described as morally correct but tepid.

While we doubt it, maybe the time has come for someone like Trump to challenge the many global rules that haven’t worked well for powerless people and smaller nations like Ukraine. Maybe his scattershot rhetoric and ill-tempered tweets are merely, like his hopeful supporters think, the crafty opening positions of an experienced dealmaker who can bargain his way to success with China and Russia, while protecting the world’s weaker states.

But if he’s as bad as we think, and there is indeed no method to his madness, we hope the American people quickly rise up and drive him out of power.