American Suicide | by Joschka Fischer - Project Syndicate

American Suicide | by Joschka Fischer - Project Syndicate

With his trade war, attacks on longstanding US allies, and wanton destruction of US institutions, Donald Trump has already ushered in a new, much darker era of world history. Trust in the United States has been destroyed for at least a generation, and the world that America helped build is already gone forever.

Donald Trump is the first US president since World War II to abandon the slogan that America is an “indispensable nation” and a global leader in preserving democracy as a key tool for reshaping the world in accordance with America’s vital interests. The new administration “brings together autocrats and would-be autocrats from around the world,” says Rosa Balfour, director of the Carnegie Endowment for Europe. “What unites them is a radical right…

Many countries have smelled Trump's weakness and are betting on it. Canada has taken the path of maximum intransigence in retaliation and China is not limited to imposing counter-tariffs

According to chief economist Sander Tordoir of the think tank Centre for European Reform, Trump's supposed strategy behind the import duties contains quite a few contradictions. According to him, it is therefore questionable whether that strategy really exists. 'The other reading is that Trump simply really likes import duties', he says in the BNR podcast Boekestijn & De Wijk. First of all, the supposed strategy, which has also been hinted at by…