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https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/125c35ce6222fd44148fcd9a26a530878ec680b6/19_242_2929_1759/master/2929.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=20951cfb140c081eaab71897998d62f0As an erratic president imposes his international doctrine, countries are forging more stable alliances. His US will be weaker, not stronger
One of the ways in which Donald Trump’s regime obscures and distracts is by drawing our eyes constantly to the US – its raw power to intimidate and bully other nations, and its vast financial heft in wielding soft power through organisations such as USAid.
But at the same time as Trump projects his agenda on to the world stage, he is withdrawing the US from the world and reducing its role to its bare bones – an imperial power that blatantly picks and chooses how to engage based on its alliances and interests. American taxpayer money is ever so precious on the one hand, but on the other can be profligately spent on proposals to take over an entire territory in Gaza and send billions in aid to Israel. This is not isolationism, it is unilateralism.
