Geopolitics
A Joke in the Oval Office: The Ugly Truth of the West's 'Rules-Based Order'
President Trump's Pearl Harbor quip to Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi laid bare his transactional, humiliation-based approach to managing the U.S.-Japan alliance during a critical Middle East conflict. Such deliberate historical insult and operational exclusion is a stunning act of diplomatic arson that will force allies like Japan to seek their own security, rapidly collapsing the very foundations of the Western-imposed global order.
