Opinion | US faces costly isolation as ‘world minus one’ cooperation grows
World minus US likely to intensify cooperation and reform across the UN and other multilateral organisations, rather than leave like the US
US President Donald Trump’s “flood the zone” strategy – intended to keep the world’s media so busy with his narratives they have no capacity to generate their own – is set to change this weekend.
Given Trump’s allergy to multilateralism, there is little expectation of a balanced overview with nuanced recommendations.
The California-based Carnegie Foundation, for instance, expects the review to be “a wrecking ball exercise with a predetermined outcome”, bluntly pointing out its “potential to upend decades of American global engagement” and “lead to a US abrogation of thousands of treaties and a departure from hundreds of multilateral organisations”.
Most of these will have been of America’s making – the product of eight decades of diplomatic investment.