Trump smashes the system with global tariffs

It’s the United States against the whole world, and America’s only possible great-power ally is Russia.

U.S. President Donald Trump has greatly overestimated America’s ability to prevent a realignment of global trade that simply goes around it, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of Flickr/The White House

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

April 7, 2025

LONDON, U.K.—In 10 whirlwind weeks, United States President Donald Trump had already smashed the international system of rules and alliances that more or less kept the peace for the past 80 years, but his bizarre “tariffs on everybody” policy has given us a glimpse of ...

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