Unlike the popular classical epic by the Irish Playwright, Samuel Beckett, titled ” Waiting for Godot”, the Americans and the rest of the world are eagerly and truly waiting for the “arrival” of former President Donald J Trump with mixed feelings.
While Trump’s vociferous tantruming is sending mixed signals to multipolarity and geopolitics on one hand, Liberalism seems to be biting the dust in many corners of the globe for the umpteenth time, on the other.
For Donald Trump and his MAGA ( Make America Great Again) agenda, true and pure American Nationalism comes first before Internationalism. And this might just be the crux of the matter: the reason some global political blocs are unsettled with his advent into the world political stage, one more time.
One of the many reasons given by those whose minds are unsettled, is the “warmonger” appellation attached to Donald Trump’s acclaimed coat of blurry colours, by unjust pundits and eccentric critics over time. Yet, they are tripped by the incoming ex-President deft move that broker the truce recently between Israel and Hamas, even before he assumed the legal occupancy of the oval office.
It is true that Donald Trump may not be coming in with an entirely different foreign policy towards her allies and the rest of the world. No recent American President ever did. But things have changed drastically in our world since the first advent of Trump.
For example, the Russian-Ukranian war has become a good test of resolve, love and unity in Europe. The many European sanctions thrown at Moscow is drastically having unintended consequences on the whole of Europe, boomeranging on her economy, while rejuvenating Russia’s defence industry with new innovations and a robust upscaling in terms of defence and the intellectuality of war, as it were.
Today’s middle East is quite unpredictable too, not with competing alliances of interest wielded by multipolarity, with Russia and Turkey leading the pack. Africa, too, has always been on the peripheral consideration having been reduced to a junior partner in the international division of labour from time immemorial.
The fear of the rise of powerful Oligarchs, capable of controlling world politics with their humongous financial capabilities and the gradual grinding of the wheel of liberalism, is a snag that every self proclaimed policeman of the world may have to contend with.
With this background of an international system that is highly dynamic and fraught with geopolitical upsets and intrigues, one wonders why most political pundits are still afraid of someone coming to upset the applecart with relative ease while punishing the world at his whim and caprice.
While awaiting Donald Trump’s much talked about four years, let us hope for a better and peaceful world. It is better than allowing our delusional clairvoyance, to take the rest of our expectation and the desire to live in a world devoid of wars, this time around. To many Americans, “the longest weekend” is here. May the second coming of President Donald Trump be a blessing to our world.
