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David Parsons and guest Justin Rogers-Cooper discuss the potential collapse of the post-1945 global order and its implications.

This is a brief clip from a full episode on our subscribers feed. Subscribe to hear the whole thing! This week Justin joins me to consider what would happen if the post-1945 "rules based order" really does collapse -- something that seems more inevitable with each passing moment. With the Trump administration acting in severely irrational ways, how will the global system react? In addition to thinking about Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's dire warning at this week's Davos conference, we talk about the wider chaos unleashed by ICE in Minnesota, Trump's attack on the Fed, and the continued dive into the abyss of 19th century imperial logic.

People in this episode

Host: David Parsons

Guest: Justin Rogers-Cooper

Topics covered

• global politics
• post-1945 order
• Trump administration
• Davos conference
• imperial logic
• chaos in governance

Keywords

• global system
• chaos
• Trump
• Canada
• Davos
• ICE
• imperial logic

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ICE, Trump administration, Fed

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