Trump Trashing the World Order Could Have Its Upsides

Trump Trashing the World Order Could Have Its Upsides

The past week has seen the most decisive reordering of the international order since the fall of the Soviet Union. From the end of the second world war, the United States has positioned itself as the guarantor of European defence against a presumed threat from the East – first for western Europe against the Soviet Union and then, since the late 1990s, for the east against Russia. President Trump, and his vice-resident JD Vance, speaking at the M…

Trump Ends the Liberal World Order - Revolutionary Communists of America

A single phone call signaled the death of the so-called Western alliance and the collapse of the system of world relations that has held sway since World War II. That phone call was, of course, between Trump and Putin. [Originally published on Marxist.com]  This was no mere formal opening of dialogue. It was, by both accounts, an extremely cordial call. For one and a half hours, the two warmly discussed their nations’ common history of cooperati…

Trump And The Multi-Polar Order

Well, here we are. A week and a few days into the new Trump Presidency much of the character and nature of his administration and its policy direction for the next 4 years has already begun to crystallise somewhat, most certainly on the foreign policy front at least. When Trump speaks of America First and a commitment to the declining role for the US in world affairs, I tend to feel he largely means it and on this if nothing else, I take him at …

Trump and Putin are rebuilding the world order by flouting international rules and agreements. As a result, uncertainty and insecurity are greater than ever. In Ukraine, in Europe, worldwide.