2025-03-03
8 分钟Hi, this is Charlotte Howard, one of the hosts of Checks and Balance, our US podcast.
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The rupture of the post-1945 order is gaining pace.
In extraordinary scenes at the UN this week,
America sided with Russia and North Korea against Ukraine and Europe.
Germany's probable new Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, warns that by June NATO may be dead.
Fast approaching is a might-is-right world in which big powers cut deals and bully small ones.
Team Trump claims that its deal-making will bring peace and that after 80 years of being taken for a ride,
America will turn its superpower status into profit.
Instead, it will make the world more dangerous and America weaker and poorer.
You may not be interested in the world order, but it is interested in you.
America's Don Corleone approach has been on display in Ukraine.
Having initially demanded $500 billion,
American officials settled for a hazy deal for a joint state fund to develop Ukrainian minerals.
It is unclear if America will offer security guarantees in return.
The administration is a swirl of ideas and egos, but its people agree on one thing.
Under the post-1945 framework of rules and alliances,
Americans have been suckered into unfair trade and paying for foreign wars.