Learning One's Place in the New World Order!

A.E.I.O.U.

Amerika est imperare orbi universo!

"America will rule the world!"

Those are President Trump's sentiments exactly regarding his vision of a new world order.

Only he hasn't been able to pull it off. Not yet.

The New World Order consists of three superpowers: China, Russia and the United States of America.

Their political, economic, social, military and territorial ambitions cover the entire globe.

More importantly, the rest of the world doesn't trust them.

Not that they really care.

Unfortunately for President Trump, Russia and China are actively defying his claims to global dominance, with China giving America as good as they are getting in the global trade war.

Russia, despite President Trump's bromance with Vladimir Putin, continues to pursue her own agenda, which is bugging The Donald more than somewhat.

India, Japan, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf State comprise the world's Great Powers, with ambitions far more limited in scope when compared to the Superpowers, but incredibly important to the global economy.

Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States's vast oil reserves make their involvement in global affairs absolutely essential, since their oil is necessary to feed the world's industrialized nations, who cannot do without it.

Had they not been blessed with this natural resource, they would have been relegated to the status of third-rate backwaters.

Then there are the second-rate powers.

Australia and Canada are more or less functional, stable democracies and heavily dependent on global trade to sustain themselves.

Argentina and Brazil have the potential to be Great Powers on the global stage, but the instability of their internal politics and economies have relegated them to the sidelines.

Iran and Turkey, while capable of great bluster and ability to interfere in the regional politics of their neighbors, are hampered by their collapsing economies and internal dissent from playing more than a marginal role in world affairs, despite Iran's huge oil reserves.

Still, they attract a great deal of attention from the international media, especially since they rank badly against other nations in regard to human rights and the freedom of the press.

And then there is the European Union, potentially a global Superpower, but incapable of realizing that status because of its internal divisions, cumbersome bureaucracy, lack of standardization and coordination among its member states or an all-embracing social, political, economic and military agenda acceptable to them all.

It is the EU's potential to become a global Superpower that has earned them Trump's hatred and why he wishes to destroy it.

He need not waste his time, because Ursula van der Leyen's high-toned moral pose comes much too little, much too late to create a more perfect union among the EU's member states.

In fact, it is really having the opposite effect.

And, like Blanche Du Bois, the EU has always depended on the kindness of strangers for its survival, meaning the United States of America providing it with military security so it could pose as a global power.

Their wrath against President Trump stems from the fact that he is cutting military aid to the EU, broadly hinting that the United States will withdraw from NATO, which is largely funded by America.

The EU, apparently has been told to protect itself, something that they have never counted on doing!

As for the third-rate powers, they consist of the rest of the world.

Politically unstable, given to coups, military juntas, strong man rule, civil wars, genocides and economic dislocations, they are heavily depending on foreign aid to keep their corrupt regimes in power and wealth unattainable by the people the supposedly represent.

Most of Latin America, all of Africa and a good chunk of Asia fall into this category.

Even the United Kingdom has fallen to the level of a third-rate power since Brexit, hoping to salvage something of their past as a global Superpower by becoming President Trump's lickspittle, while going on and on and on about the "special relationship" between the United States and the United Kingdom.

That is the crux of this blog: Where do these states fit into the new world order?

The answer is brutal: They are destined to become satellites of one of the three Superpowers or die.

That was the issue forced upon the world by President Trump's trade war!

Half of the world has already called President Trump to cry "uncle" to make appointments to speak with The Donald, hoping to make trade deals that will lessen the effects of the new American tariffs on their individual economies.

Italy's Giogia Meloni has already made her pilgrimage to Washington DC to kiss the ass of President Trump regarding these tariffs.

This is exactly the sort of thing that the Trump administration wants: Abject submission.

It is to be noted that Meloni came to represent only Italy's interests, not that of the Eruopean Union.

More will come shortly.

But it illustrates the lack of unity within the EU.

Hungary's Frogmouth, Viktor Orban, on the other hand, would rather get into bed with Russia's Putin, further illustrating the political disunity withing the EU.

The smaller powers are now faced with the prospect of choosing between China, Russia and the United States and coordinating the economies (as well as their internal policies) with the Superpower of their choice.

Superpowers that they do not trust to fulfil their promises but will make their choice out of fear.

And woe betide those states who try to strike a balancing act between the three Superpowers.

That is the reality of the new world order.

Ainsi sera, groigne que groigne!

"That is the way it is going to be, grumble though they may!"