Trump, the Dying Multinational Order and the Global South

Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain

In the second year of Donald Trump’s second term, beginning with the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on January 2, 2026, followed by the war of choice he has waged against Iran alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the U.S. president has continued his demolition of the 80-year-old global order set up by Washington in the aftermath of the Second World War.

That dying regime is a structure of rules...