If analysts like Dugan Brown (The Mercury, February 2) want to remain relevant, they are going to have to accept that President Trump has made their globalist narrative obsolete.
Trump has flipped the geopolitical chessboard against globalism whilst simultaneously doing what no other Western so-called leader is doing, namely, erecting roadblocks on China’s imperial ambitions through tariffs, trade, America First policy and military deterrence.
Dugan writes critically of “unrestrained power,” of which he accuses Trump. But he is silent about China’s unrestrained encroachment in the Indo-Pacific, Greenland and through ownership of industry in Western countries.
Brown bases his narrative on the issue of legitimacy with which he uncritically associates EU countries, but by implication asserts that Trump’s foreign policy lacks legitimacy. Wrong, Dugan Brown.
Trump is the only leader of a Western state who has a solid, legitimate mandate. No globalist leader of any European country, including Carney of Canada, can boast of that. In fact, the majority of Europeans and Canadians would sack their so-called leaders tomorrow if they had the chance.
Trump rightly has contempt for the globalist EU for the following reasons: its betrayal of Western values through mass migration of unassimilable people, censorship of free speech, bureaucratic dictatorship and its insistence on perpetuating conflict in Ukraine by providing finance as a means of provoking a full-scale war in Europe.
Brown’s view that Trump’s foreign policy is strengthening BRICS is also off-key because the main components of BRICS are each tending their own agendas. India has strong trade ties with the US. Russia is wary of China’s geopolitical ambitions. Brazil is mired in failed socialist policies. ANC-misguided foreign policy has cast South Africa as a supporter of Iran and a foe of Israel while simultaneously being at odds with America. BRICS, like globalism, is obsolete.
The most conspicuous omission in Brown’s attempt to de-legitimise Trump’s foreign policy is a reference to his Board of Peace to which 59 states are aligned and which has the approval of the UN Security Council. The establishment of the Board of Peace outstrips anything that any other leader has achieved and deserves serious credit.
Add Comment