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April 14, 2025 Vol 19

The Guardian Guide to Trump’s external policy: A stressful new order is shaping | Editorial


NDonald Trump’s notion of Gaza should be under US control according to the established laws and customs of the international relations. But the current White House regime hates the former way of doing things and intends to reshape the world with so much restoration of a pre-trump order is impossible.

The absurd Mr. Trump’s proposal that the US “removes” Gaza does not make it less. The request that the 2.2 million Palestinians are forced to be resettled in nearby Arab states worth the unambiguous endorsement of a criminal atrocities -ethnic cleaning.

The idea that the land, requested by the US government, would then change into a “riviera” of the Mediterranean was distracting and surprising its detachment from the truth. Mr. Trump is treating a war zone in the middle of one of the most bad conflicts in the world as a patch of Derelict Manhattan real estate. He is fighting over the lives of millions of people in the idiom of a corrupt developer of ownership and the methods and ethics of a mafia boss.

The inevitable consequence of handling complex international issues with the cruelty and simplicity of the bovine is to spread fear, uncertainty and uneasy. It adds stunning volatility to a certain moment when the opposite approach is required to maintain the fragile stop in Gaza.

Every government in the Middle East, with the exception of Benjamin Netanyahu’s ultra-nationalist coalition in Israel, rejected Mr. Trump’s intervention as dangerous and anti-productive. That is also the view of the European allies of US-O President.

He only recognizes clients, rivals and enemies. It is possible to move between those categories by removing the favor and offering of favors. But strong alignment based on one another’s interests, legal binding obligations to the agreement and democratic values ​​is a model that has no money in the White House.

That is a massive strengthening of the geopolitical ambitions of Russia and China. This proves a vicious can be the right approach to international relationships. It is legitimate the kind of imperialist land conquered by Vladimir Putin in Ukraine. For Beijing, an age of unreliable American has offered a variety of economic and strategic expansion ways. China sees a vacancy for herself as the most predictive superpower in the world.

There is a common reasoning that explains his carelessness as the opening moves to an negotiation. His most -outlandish ideas, such as the American allocation of Gaza, were thus sanitized as the freewheeling improvisations of a “transactional” entrepreneur. He was thrown away as a master of Brinkmanship who uses shock and excitement among wrongfoot opponents before repairing, ultimately, for more sharp outcomes.

That review looks especially naive, even though it has a high image of the president. He may think that he is just making a “deal”, but others should be clear that the right terms are coercion and extortion.

There are many examples from the history of appealing potentates that spread the illness in their own territories and abroad. There is nothing ahead of the world’s strongest democracy, and there is no playbook to guide the country’s former allies in handling the situation. But one thing is clear now -hoping that Mr Trump’s America can be assembled by following the old rules is not a safe approach.

Thora Simonis

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