Trump wages economic war on US allies, while BRICS builds alternative system

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Is Trump destroying the Western alliance? Will Europe break with USA and ally with China?

As Donald Trump hits the EU with tariffs and threatens to colonize Greenland (an autonomous territory of NATO member Denmark), European leaders are improving relations with China and seeking new trade partners. Is this the end of the political West and the transatlantic alliance? ...  Show more

The USA's crazy plan to destroy the UN and international law

The Donald Trump administration is waging a war against all multilateral institutions and international law itself. He withdrew the US from most global organizations and created a "Board of Peace" as an alternative to the UN that is entirely controlled by the USA. Ben Norton expl ...  Show more

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