Lara Marlowe: Unstable new world order has frightening echoes of the 1930s and 40s

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : [ Trump says Ukraine 'needs to reach deal' with RussiaOpens in new window ] Trump is part of a seemingly unstoppable wave of far-right populist nationalists, autocrats and dictators which has stretched from Asia to Latin America.
43% : " At a press conference at Mar-a-Lago on December 16th, Trump boasted that "in the first term, everyone was fighting me.
42% : "The election of Donald Trump and the uncertainty he maintains regarding his diplomatic intentions, like his very personal practice of strategic ambiguity, act as a catalyst on the most serious crises of the moment," Sylvie Kauffmann wrote in Le Monde. Russian and Ukrainian forces are struggling to seize territory before Trump takes office.
41% : Within the EU and Nato, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban, seconded by his Slovakian colleague Robert Fico, impedes attempts to help Ukraine and confront Russia.
38% : Trump is unlikely to grant Ukraine the security guarantees it needs.
37% : Trump seems to regard the wars in Ukraine and Gaza as pesky distractions to be quickly dispensed with so he can concentrate on China and immigration.
24% : During his presidential campaign, Trump denied allegations by several past close associates that he praised Hitler and Hitler's generals.
21% : [ Why did Israel single out Ireland and accuse Simon Harris of anti-Semitism?Opens in new window ] Trump is not the first to proclaim "America First".
20% : US institutions and international treaties are fading, and Ukraine and Palestine have been betrayed Standing on the steps of the Élysée Palace on December 7th, Donald Trump made a for-once accurate observation: "It certainly seems like the world is going a little crazy right now," the US president-elect said.

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