US President Donald Trump is hastening the decline of the US like no other leader before him and he may take parts of the multilateral system down in the process.

He is leading his country backwards, back to the past century when the US was the hegemonic stabiliser and lender of last resort. History has shown that such a role worked most effectively when it was backed by a strong military...

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