Immediately after the swearing in, Trump did not lose time to sign several orders. An order of the foremost concern with long term impact, is the order to formally withdraw the US from Paris Climate agreements. This is so far the most important agreement which has taken cognizance of the manmade climate crises. It highlighted the importance of global cooperation to mitigate the climate change. We have already seen the effects of climate change in the form of rising temperature, floods, change in the crop patterns, crises of food security and the impact on the health of the poor vulnerable people in the third world countries.
It is very unlikely that any of the above mentioned participants in the Trump’s swearing in ceremony will challenge this order at any public forum. For them the meaning of growth is different from the concerns of the people for food, shelter, healthcare, education and basic minimum needs. They believe in super industrialisation utilising the fossil fuels or if need be replace it with nuclear energy in the name of false notion of clean energy source without realising its inherent dangers.
Trump has also passed the order to withdraw from the World Health Organisation (WHO). This amounts to abdicating the responsibility to participate in the global efforts to promote health of the people. Trump's decision does not hold ground because it has been pointed out that the WHO toes the line of multinational corporations in several matters. Most of these corporations belong to the United States of America. Whereas there have been shortcomings in handling the pandemic by the WHO, it should be noted that US based vaccine making corporations made huge profits, even blackmailed some of the developing countries particularly in Africa. Needless to say that the multinational health related corporations of the USA have made much more profit in the name of US governments contribution to the WHO.
Trump’s order on having only two genders is highly regressive. That the genders are to be defined based on whether people are born with eggs or sperms, rather than on their chromosomes, according to details of the upcoming order. This will affect the rights of the transgender population.
Any policy about the immigrants should be designed based on the humanitarian values. His stand of the rights of immigrants has to be viewed with scepticism. Aggressive stances toward Latin America, especially Cuba, signal continued imperialist interventionism, threatening the self-determination of nations.
He has reiterated to take over control the Panama Canal by putting Naval Blockade. He has already changed the name of Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. There is an open move to purchase the green land.
In the name of make America great again he is unlikely to do away with aggressive policies of the US in the world affairs. He has reiterated to continue arms supply to Israel. How long the ceasefire in Gaza will last is only to be seen. This is not a peace agreement but a temporary cessation of war which can be a step forward to discuss the lasting solutions for peace. The world very well knows that the US has a lot at stake in the Middle East and Israel is their firm puppet in the region.
It is unlikely that he will go all out to please Putin and pressurise Zelensky to stop fighting. Neither Putin nor the European countries who have been cheering the Ukrainian President to keep on fighting will easily listen to him even if he does so.
US economy is based on the armament industry and they would continue to make profit by selling arms and promoting wars at the cost of people’s life. Donald Trump's inaugural speech marks a troubling shift in global politics. His policies reflect the colonial mindset of 18th and 19th century. He denies global mutual cooperation and multilateralism. His threat to the BRICS shows complete contempt for sovereignty of nations. This will threaten global stability. His orders have shown his mindset for unilateralism, against the mutual respect and dialogue among nations. Protectionist economic policies, like tariffs, aim to control trade against developing nations, exacerbating global inequality and systemic exploitation.
The global expenditure on arms race including the nuclear arms race is increasing continuously with maximum share of the US in it. Donald Trump has not uttered a word for global nuclear disarmament.
With his stance and the gathering of superrich around him one is but to guess the future of the world in time to come. The developing countries will have to design their strategies and organise to save their interests. (IPA Service)