Reveal Trump’s Impulsive Foreign Policy Is Tearing Apart the Global Order
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Apr 29, 2026 
Daniel Immerwahr, history professor and author of How to Hide an Empire, explains how recent U.S. moves are reshaping global structures. He discusses Trump’s transactional instincts, hit-and-run regime tactics, territorial thinking about Greenland and Canada, the fracturing of the post‑1945 order, and possible futures if U.S. hegemony continues to unravel.
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Regime Change Nihilism Explains Hit And Run Actions
- Trump practices 'regime change nihilism' by disregarding downstream consequences when ordering strikes or interventions.
- That indifference makes him comfortable with hit-and-run actions because he isn't 'looking at the chessboard.'
Cannibalizing The Empire Instead Of Building One
- Immerwahr distinguishes Trump's approach from classical imperialism, calling it cannibalism of the empire.
- Instead of building administrative control, Trump conducts scattershot, arbitrary seizures and threats without systemic legitimacy.
Adults In The Room Kept Trump In Check Then They Left
- In Trump's first term 'grownups' restrained him; by term two he removed them and surrounded himself with allies who wouldn't push back.
- Rex Tillerson famously called Trump a 'fucking moron' after a Pentagon briefing Trump dismissed.
