"Have no doubt, this is a moment: if pursued as a non-negotiable demand, Trump's plan ends any lingering hope that the liberal rules-based order can stumble on through his remaining time in office. The real question now is whether the 2020s will be defined by the complete collapse of the order's already crumbling pillars and the atrocities accompanying it, or whether an international coalition of the willing can come together to build a new global framework in its place."
"We cannot doubt any longer that the president meant it when he said he doesn't need international law, and that the only constraint on his exercise of power would be my own morality, my own mind. Indeed, in the past few weeks, every single promise of the US-led Atlantic charter, authored by Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, which foreshadowed the United Nations charter and which includes freedom of the high seas, free trade and freedom from colonial aggrandisement, has seemingly been cast aside."
European leaders have reacted with resistance to Trump's plan to take over Greenland and threaten tariff wars. The plan, if enforced non-negotiably, extinguishes hope for the liberal rules-based order surviving his term. The 2020s may witness either collapse of the order's pillars and accompanying atrocities or a coalition building a new global framework. The US has abandoned championing rule of law, human rights, democracy, territorial integrity, humanitarian aid and environmental stewardship. Presidential statements rejecting international law and advisors advocating governance by strength, force, and power exemplify this shift. Europe and democracies of the global south must pursue a new statement/framework.
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