Vijay Prashad and John Ross discuss the momentous shift in the US’s geopolitical orientation that Trump is attempting to achieve – a reverse in direction of the shift led by Kissinger and Nixon in the 1970s.
Trump, upon taking office, signed an executive order declaring that the US, the world’s largest historical largest emitter of greenhouse gases, will withdraw from the Paris Agreement. The global climate situation is already dire and walking away from the Paris Agreement won’t protect Americans from climate impacts.
US imperialism has suffered a defeat in Ukraine. The US is using the same playbook, around Ukraine, as it did after its defeat in Vietnam.
Vijay Prashad’s incisive analysis of what Trump is attempting to do.
The seemingly contradictory signals coming from the Trump administration merely reflect an ongoing debate within it over the order in which countries should be attacked.
Speakers:
Jill Stein (Green Party)
Claudia De La Cruz (Party for Socialism and Liberation)
Sevim Dağdelen (Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance – Reason and Justice)
Bianca Mugyenyi (Canadian Foreign Policy Institute)
Walden Bello (Focus on the Global South)
Charles Xu (Qiao Collective)
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