A former Republican congressman lamented President Donald Trump’s “rupture” of the global order established at the end of World War II.
The 79-year-old president has threatened NATO allies Denmark and Canada and angered European Union nations and other trade partners with his tariffs, and former GOP lawmaker Charlie Dent told “CNN This Morning” that he agreed with Canadian prime minister Mark Carney, who warned that Trump’s second presidency signaled the end of a rules-based order.
“What’s at stake is the world order, and what is stunning to me that the United States of America led this world order,” Dent said. “We helped create it, we developed it with our friends and partners. We made Europe a better place, peaceful, prosperous and whole after two world wars. This is an insult to the greatest generation that fought so hard to make make this world a better place, preventing great power conflict, and now we are throwing it all away – to what end? It is insane.”
“As the Canadian prime minister Carney just said, this is a rupture,” Dent said. “This is not a transition. There will be consequences to this country economically, geopolitically, they’re hedging against us. All these middle powers, and they don’t, they they’re de-risking from the United States as well as China. I mean, this is where we are.”
The former congressman said the president’s moves made no sense from a strategic standpoint.
“You know, the president is not using tariffs to deal with unfair trade practices,” Dent said. “He’s using tariffs to coerce and bully other countries into an imperialistic territorial expansion of the United States. I mean, this is insane.”
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