On December 15th, an opinion piece by Imran Khalid analyzed global policy changes brought about by Trump and his MAGA brain trust. While we rage at Trump’s daily affronts to civility and our way of life, these distractions hide worldwide upheaval, as our allies and foes each try to adjust to the new, grim world order we’re promulgating.
The lessons of World War II and the destructiveness made possible by nuclear weapons forced changes that have, in practice, mostly succeeded in containing our worst offensive reflexes and in keeping the major powers at peace with each other. An unintended benefit has been greater global prosperity and worldwide trade. Khalid rightly describes how all that is now changed – probably forever. We might try to recapture the post WW II paradigms, but that’s likely undoable.
It’s too easy to become derailed by Administration hatefulness. Instead, we should insist that our leaders refocus on managing and containing the global changes that could actually destroy us all.
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Shelly Fishman
Midtown
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