Nonetheless, the MSR 2026 points out: “Washington’s bulldozer politics promises to break institutional inertia and compel problem-solving on challenges marked by gridlock. The breakthroughs on NATO defense spending targets and on a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas are cases in point.” Yet the report does not believe such successes justify the means by which they were achieved. President Trump does have a way of pushing policies and initiatives based on a single alternative: his. With the absence of viable options from the Europeans, Trump’s approach is often not just a “single” alternative among many; it is the only alternative on the table.
MSR 2026 laments that “The US administration’s renunciation of core elements of the existing international order is impacting different regions of the world and disrupting various policy domains.” Maybe those policy domains need to be disrupted. The notion that there is a mutually agreed-upon and adhered-to rules-based order to geopolitics is a fiction. It doesn’t exist, as if it ever did. However, that mythology is held sacrosanct by the globalist elites, particularly in Europe. But look around. Try to identify where the international order of things transcends individual state transactions and achieves some higher goal. Those moments are few, if any. The report admits that “governments have long relied on and hugely benefitted from ‘Pax Americana.’” As it has played out in the past, Pax Americana has meant that allies, friends, and partners enjoy the “pax” part, while Americans disproportionately pay for it through tax dollars to sustain a formidable US military presence.
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