Arnaud Bertrand on the recent moves by Trump:
- This is the US effectively saying “our attempt at running the world is over, to each his own, we’re now just another great power, not the ‘indispensable nation’.”
- Hegemony was going to end sooner or later, and now the U.S. is basically choosing to end it on its own terms.
- It is the post-American world order – brought to you by America itself.
- You can either view it as decline – because it does unquestionably look like the end of the American empire –
- or as avoiding further decline: controlled withdrawal from imperial commitments in order to focus resources on core national interests rather than being forced into an even messier retreat at a later stage.
- All in all this transformation may mark one of the most significant shifts in international relations since the fall of the Soviet Union.
- And those most unprepared for it, as is already painfully obvious, are America’s vassals caught completely flat-footed by the realization that the patron they’ve relied on for decades is now treating them as just another set of countries to negotiate with.
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