Tag: International order
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From the Cold War to the ICE Age: The US Abdication from the Free World
From Iraq to Kabul and from foreign battlefields to American streets the United States has drifted from law to force. This post traces how post Cold War hubris 9/11 trauma and Trump era doctrines have hollowed out the rule based order leaving the free world leaderless and at risk. Three and a half decades after…
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Alarm Bells in Caracas – a wake up call for the EU
Trump’s reckless invasion of Venezuela shatters illusions about a self-sustaining rules-based order. The EU now faces a decisive choice: drift into irrelevance or unite, wielding both muscle and diplomacy, to defend postwar values of human rights, justice and law. History demands leadership; hesitation means surrender by instalments for Europe itself. There are moments when history…