Trump and the erosion of the Western consensus
Here we are, at the beginning of 2017, with a now openly irredentist and revanchist Russia having bared its teeth, occupied the Crimean Peninsula in contravention of international law, and nearly three years into a prolonged hot war against Ukraine on a second front in the East.
OTTAWA—Two thousand seventeen may well go down in history as the year the post-war global order was scrambled irreversibly. The last year's major electoral events amount to a loosening of the Western liberal-democrati...
