[lbo-talk] Unsettled by the God of Carnage

[Marv Gandall]

Here’s a window on the alarm Trump’s accession to the US presidency has provoked within sophisticated global elite circles. 

The common thread in the linked opinion pieces by Joschka Fischer, Ana Palacio, Richard Haass, Guy Verhofstadt, Javier Solana, Robert Skidelsky, Carl Bildt, Stephen Roach, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Joseph Nye, and other academics, politicians, and business leaders is that the policies of Trump’s naive and reckless far right administration will undermine the Pax Americana which has secured the expansion of global capitalism over the past seven decades.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/the-god-of-carnage-2017-01