ISMAIL LAGARDIEN: Beyond his trade wars Trump is playing a dangerous game of civilisational roulette
China poses a problem as it has been emboldened and regained the courage to build a future
The predominance of economics-speak — the habit of casting every discussion in terms of its financial or economic implications, as if nothing else mattered — forced the world’s focus onto the economic fallout of the trade and tariff wars launched by Donald Trump.
There has been less of a focus on the way Trump is leaning into civilisational war talk, of making civilisations great again by way of creating a plural sphereology, incorporating distant territories and locales into what the redoubtable Russian intellectual Alexander Dugin referred to as a “plurality of civilisational spaces,” a multipolarity that pits “civilisations” against one another. ..
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