The Post-War Order Is Over

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National Review
Victor Davis Hanson
May 29, 2018

And not because Trump wrecked it.

The 75-year-old post-war order crafted by the United States after World War II is falling apart. Almost every major foreign-policy initiative of the last 16 years seems to have gone haywire.

Donald Trump’s presidency was a reflection, not a catalyst, of the demise of the foreign-policy status quo. Much of the world now already operates on premises that have little to do with official post-war institutions, customs, and traditions, which, however once successful, belong now to a bygone age.

Take the idea of a Western Turkey, “linchpin of NATO southeastern flank” — an idea about as enduring as the “indomitable” French Army of 1939. For over a decade Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan has insidiously destroyed Turkey’s once pro-Western and largely secular traditions; he could not have done so without at least majority popular support.

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VDH makes alot of sense here. His take on the evolving international scene kinda sums up why the US's ruling elite seems stultified and why they're losing their political grip here at home.

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VDH makes alot of sense here. His take on the evolving international scene kinda sums up why the US's ruling elite seems stultified and why they're losing their political grip here at home.

From a US point of view, I've been saying that the post-WWII era was an anomaly and is now the past. We are no longer the economic engine of the world, or are much less so, and are back to the international competition that is the norm, if there can be a norm. If that seems iffy then all I can say is that it is an iffy world.