In his address to Congress, Trump emphasised that America ‘is back’. However, the US’ financial position tells a different story, one with global implications
Who is writing fiction and who is increasingly recognising harsh reality?
Those used to Trumpian language and behaviour accept the truth of Carney’s quote from former Czech president Vaclav Havel, that everyone is “living within a lie”. Everyone is entitled to live with their own lies, but Trump’s words and actions have brutally awakened many to accept that living within a lie is to accept one’s fate as vassal or serf.
Those who wake up will have to strengthen themselves, seek new allies or partners, diversify and help co-create a new order. Even the meek Europeans have finally woken up to accept the dictum that “there are no permanent friends or enemies, only permanent interests”.
