After the US election last November, I changed my plans. For many years, I had been writing about America, Europe, Russia and Ukraine, describing and analyzing the breakdown of international norms, the spread of authoritarian propaganda, deliberate attempts to create refugees and violence. I knew that Trump's victory ensured that these geopolitical shifts, away from the rule of law and towards a more anarchic world, would become permanent.
I knew that Trump's victory ensured that these geopolitical shifts, away from the rule of law and towards a more anarchic world, would become permanent. Of course I would continue about what that means for Americans, for Europeans, for Ukrainians. But I also wanted to look at the problem differently.
But I also wanted to look at the problem differently. How does this shift look from elsewhere. What does the post-American world look like from Sudan, for example, where a civil war has displaced more people than in Ukraine and Gaza combined.