#globalization #isolationism
Hopefully it will not take World War III to get us there. Hopefully we will not end up in a world in which we are further divided, isolated and estranged from one another. Hopefully we will not need to grow potatoes under train tracks or raise goats on our balconies. But it is clear that resolving tensions between globalization and equality is one of the most urgent tasks of our time and that our future rests upon it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/opinion/globalization-collapse.html

That's journalism: Read on one page what the world leaders say about the USA today: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/donald-trump-global-trade-tariff-rates-by-country-breakdown-asia - just a #travel around the globe.

Weekly #shopping has recently been given a fun twist: #BoycottUSA

Fortunately, it's easy in #France: goods from the region and the own country have always been specially labelled. And we now also cheekily turn US goods upside down.

A new study: 62% of French people support the #boycott of US products. Falling numbers also in #tourism, #working, #studying. The #study reveals an unprecedented collapse in the image of the US among French people.
https://www.publicsenat.fr/actualites/international/administration-trump-62-des-francais-soutiennent-le-boycott-de-produits-americains

#AmericaFirst, #MAGA, #isolationist, #isolationism, #NATO, #EasternEurope, #Russia, #PoliticalCartoon, #EditorialCartoon, @Rattoons1776

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/03/america-first?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=100646

#isolationism #UsaWall #BerlinWall

️ The U.S. is leaving the international group investigating Russia's crimes in Ukraine, – The New York Times. Washington has informed European officials of its withdrawal. The Biden administration joined the group in 2023 to investigate Putin’s actions. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/trump-ukraine-invasion-accountability.html https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/114176613955182752

A quotation from Frankln Roosevelt

   Perfectionism, no less than isolationism or imperialism or power politics, may obstruct the paths to international peace. Let us not forget that the retreat to isolationism a quarter of a century ago was started not by a direct attack against international cooperation but against the alleged imperfections of the peace.
   In our disillusionment after the last war we preferred international anarchy to international cooperation with Nations which did not see and think exactly as we did. We gave up the hope of gradually achieving a better peace because we had not the courage to fulfill our responsibilities in an admittedly imperfect world.
   We must not let that happen again, or we shall follow the same tragic road again — the road to a third world war.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Message (1945-01-06) to Congress, Annual Message (State of the Union)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

Is "restraint" a more useful framework for US foreign policy than #isolationism? It may offer a middle path between disengagement and unrestrained global activism. A foreign policy scholar explains: https://theconversation.com/what-is-isolationism-the-history-and-politics-of-an-often-maligned-foreign-policy-concept-245201

By Andrew Latham, Macalester College #diplomacy

Morten Morland @mortenmorland @thetimes on #Trump #Isolationism #RussiaUkraineWar – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

The Trump Administration Trashes Europe and NATO https://www.byteseu.com/762797/ #DonaldTrump #Europe #FirstWorldWar #isolationism #NATO #SecondWorldWar

Via #BobRae, Permanent Representative of #Canada to the #UnitedNations since 2020, @ 9:00am ET on Feb 02, 2025

The #UN Charter was drafted in 1945 by people who had learned the lessons that the #aggression, #isolationism and #TariffBarriers of the 20’s and 30’s had led the world into a conflagration. Article One makes it clear: threats of #annexation are illegal. So are unilateral #tariffs in breach of a #trade agreement.

#USPS Reverses Decision to Halt Parcel Service From #China

The Postal Service will continue to accept parcels from #HongKong & China despite a new #ExecutiveOrder from #Trump.

#economy #geopolitics #USpolitics #isolationism #Nationalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/business/usps-china-de-minimis.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Why Does Trump Threaten America’s Allies? Hint: It Starts in 1919.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/opinion/trump-panama-greenland-foreign-policy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uU4.Su69.lFsnacPSo3gL&smid=url-share GIFT article #isolationism #sovereignty #Panama #Greenland

The incumbent #president’s focus on #authoritarianism and #isolationism, as well as #corporate and self interest should be concerning to us all.

https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/trumps-authoritarianism-has-already-reshaped-western-politics/

https://t.me/AntifascistSolidarity/50423

We need to accept that for the next 1460 days the #usa will be AWOL. #Trump has already started issuing #executiveorders to isolate that country from the rest of the world. I guess the Americans have forgotten that #isolationism doesn't work, but we, in the rest of the world, can't stop and wait for them to cop on to reality, so we'll need to carry on without them.

See you in 2029. And good luck.