Brutkey

Syphilia Morgenstierne
@syphilia@kafeneio.social

Interesting take on the world situation

Arnaud Bertrand on "Nitter": If the world had been smart, they should have all joined together in solidarity at the beginning of Trump's trade war. Trump is taking countries or regions one by one: he's just done with the EU and now he's doing India. Individually they're weak against the US but if they had acted collectively with joint leverage, there's nothing Trump could have done. Instead what you get is a pathetic spectacle of isolated countries trying to - and failing miserably - appease Trump one by one, looking at each others as rival supplicants waiting for their turn to be thrown scraps when they could have made Trump's threats meaningless. Complete failure of international statecraft.