An isolated America with a tanking economy, weakened economic prospects, which betrays its allies by treating them as adversaries and obliterating decades worth of diplomatic trust with global partners, this all sounds eerily familiar to the side-effects I've outlined of the isolationist approach America is taking under President Trump.
I understand what Trump is trying to do with unwinding the global order as we knew it, however I think it needs to be done with more precision and the side effects taken into consideration.
Because the nation that could see the worst of the pain from this unwinding will be the US.
It's lost international respect as a leader.
The most recent example can be seen with the Myanmar earthquake response.
Usually, the US would be the first party to offer assistance and aid.
But it wasn't.
It was China and Russia, among others.
The US has barely lifted a finger since the event.
The point I make is that where the US leaves an open vacuum of power, it will be quickly filled by China and Russia.
Strangely, that isn't what President Trump wants.
But he has underestimated how much desire China and Russia have to be world leaders in place of the US.
That's why now is the right time for nations like Australia to endorse and support China as a global power in place of the US.
The US can no longer be trusted.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/worl ... trust.html