Fig leaves that masked the nastier realities of US power – especially with regard to its actions in the Middle East – are being discarded
by Patrick Cockburn, The Independent, UK
The Trump wrecking ball strikes again as he recognises Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights in Syria. The unexpected and arbitrary nature of the decision makes the world feel a more anarchic and dangerous place where territorial land grabs are abruptly legitimised.
Trump is tearing up the international rule book which has been largely devised by the US since 1945 and of which Washington was the main beneficiary. The alliances and multilateral institutions through which the US once asserted its superpower status are contemptuously discarded.
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