Trump has declared war on the world order, so nations like Australia must step up

The fourth world war has begun. A 121-year-old theory may help us understand how it ends. For Sweden: Totally okay – or disaster.

Trump Axes a Stricken World Order – But There’s Opportunity Amidst the Turmoil - LewRockwell

Trump’s actions were neither ‘spur of the moment’, nor whimsical. The ‘tariff solution’ had been pre-prepared by his team over years. The Trump ‘shock’ – his ‘de-centring’ of America from serving as pivot to the post-war ‘order’ via the dollar – has triggered a deep cleavage between those who gained huge benefit from the status quo, on the one hand; and on the other, the MAGA faction who have come to regard the status quo as inimical – even an e…

Trump has declared war on the world order, so nations like Australia must step up

With the leader of the free world lining up with tyrants, and the UN neutered by its veto provisions, a new international union of democracies is worth considering. Australia has a role to play.

In Trump’s new order, Australia must fight for affordable medicines

We must protect the principle that sovereignty, stability and fairness are not up for negotiation – even in a more transactional world.

Instead of the previous, imperfect liberal order, we have the hallmarks of an America immersed in isolation, and disorder and chaos reigned on the globe. What kind of world will emerge from this?