We have returned to the Dark Ages with Donald Trump |
TAKING control of Venezuela today, Greenland tomorrow and Cuba the next day – that’s Donald Trump’s foreign policy and there is plenty more where that came from.
You may disapprove of his actions, but there is a new world order out there and neither Britain, Ireland, nor the EU know how to deal with it.
Trump’s strategy is simple: he wants to carve up the world in the same way that criminal gangs divide up territories in cities, with the odd confrontation (over an oil tanker, for example).
He sees global affairs in terms of economic competition between three gangs – the US, China and Russia.
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The US will take control of what he calls “our hemisphere”, meaning North and South America and their adjoining islands.
China and Russia can carve up Africa and Asia between them.
Europe, if you’ll forgive the language, can go to hell.
In global geopolitics, Europe is now the insignificant rump of the Eurasian landmass and the EU is not part of Trump’s vision for a new world.
US President Donald Trump with Russian leader Vladimir Putin (Jae C. Hong/AP)In 1990 Europe constituted 25% of global economic output. Today that figure has fallen to 14%, making the EU just a theme park.
The EU’s statement on Venezuela failed to........