"Q: How would you describe what the Trump administration’s vision of American power is?

A: It’s much more modest, at some level. They don’t believe in Manifest Destiny at a global level. They may have some vision of American greatness and certainly a blunt patriotism.
(...)
They don’t do golf clubs as well as he’d like, and their palaces aren’t as good as the ones in the Emirates. Really, it’s a bit of an embarrassment.

To get to a more serious kind of vein, I think they think of America as embattled. They also have this extraordinary narrative of the United States as the loser in globalization.

You can break that down — Sullivan will tell a story about the American working class as having been victimized. The Trump people will talk, but it’s not very plausible because that’s not who he in any reasonable sense represents.

I had the dubious pleasure of chairing a panel with the C.E.O. of Bank of America and C.E.O. of E.Y. and Rachel Reeves of the British government and Howard Lutnick, the U.S. Commerce secretary, the key guy behind the tariffs. He, in fact referred to himself as the hammer gleefully — the enforcer of the Trump administration.

And journalists had the temerity to ask the chairman of the Bank of America, the C.E.O. of Bank of America: Can you really agree with the commerce secretary’s characterizations of globalization having been bad for America?

The obvious answer is: Who are you kidding?

They genuinely seem to believe that the American state — because they’re very confused about budgets and who earns what money for where and what tariffs do and the relationship between the private sector and the public sector is quite blurred in their mind — in some general sense, the vital bodily juices of America were sapped by entering into an openness to the world that extends from trade to globalized universities to large-scale migration."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-adam-tooze.html

#USA #Globalization #PoliticalEconomy #EconomicHistory #Trump #Imperialism #WhiteNationalism

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#Localization panel discussion "International Expansion & Localization in the AI Era for start-ups and scale-ups", #Vancouver B.C., Thursday 29 January 18:00.

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I am very glad to see #VLUG fill the #i18n meetup niche which #VanGLUG tried to fill pre-COVID. #Globalization #YVR #l10n #GILT

"Ultimately, the crisis of liberal geopolitics is downstream from a much deeper economic failure. The context that produced and gave oxygen to Trump — that of neoliberal globalism — eroded the postwar settlement and enervated democracy without delivering on its (decidedly unconvincing) promise of broadly-shared prosperity in return. Instead, its guiding ethos of deregulation, financialized growth, fiscal austerity, and the disciplining of labour power has steadily funnelled wealth upwards while extending the market’s talons into virtually every area of public and private life. The upshot has been a weakening of civil society, a climate of diminished democratic participation, rising material precarity, and the corollary waves of social disruption that inevitably give rise to authoritarian demagogues.

Carney’s speech did at least allude to these crises, and refreshingly spoke to the moral vacancy of the geopolitical settlement Trump has successfully unravelled. But Carneyism has, to date, offered us no underlying vision that is fundamentally distinct from the picture as we’ve known it for the past 40 years. The prime minister himself deals in the language of urgency and talks up the need for sweeping change. But thus far he has largely pursued this end through a form of economic “realism” that intensifies rather than constrains the market forces that helped get us here in the first place. Scaled up to an international level, it seems to me, the same logic will almost invariably express itself as conservative realpolitik rather than high principle. And, in doing so, it would merely replace the defunct Washington consensus with a more flexible kind of multilateralism that suffers from many of the same problems.

Averting that outcome will require a more fundamental change of course on the part of the world’s middle powers..."

https://www.lukewsavage.com/p/interpreting-the-carney-doctrine

#Globalization #Neoliberalism #Geopolitics #Canada #Carney #InternationalLaw #Imperialism #HumanRights

For displaced #BIPOC folks who had to flee their homelands, as kids & had resettled as refugees under asylum, into Global North regions, only.

When was the first time you experienced #racism - after being displaced from your homelands & starting over in a Global North place?

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BuddhaWang on basic #SupplyAndDemand #economics with #USA corporations ordering from #China.

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Trump’s trade wars are often misread as anti-globalization. In reality, they represented a restructuring of imperial economic relations, not their dissolution.

#Trump #globalization #trade #imperialism

https://www.groundxero.in/2026/01/24/thus-spake-trump-the-re-invention-of-empire-in-an-age-of-declining-hegemony/