DONALD TRUMP'S INAUGURATION IS USHERING IN A NEW WORLD ORDER

DONALD TRUMP'S INAUGURATION IS USHERING IN A NEW WORLD ORDER

 Come January 20, 2017 a new world order is set to begin with the inauguration of Donald J Trump as the 45th President of the United States of America.  The last time a new world order was created in 1991,came with the demise of the Soviet Union and the liberation of the East European nations from the yoke of communism and Soviet rule. Over a quarter of another century, the phenomenon is about to repeat itself. Each time a new world order comes on stage, it comes with its own reverberations and upheavals with the consequential domino effect and the toppling of ideologies, alignments and a shake-up of the world political order as we are about to witness again.

It is expected that the beginning of a new re-alignment of political forces and Geo-political realities always comes with its own teething pains and birth pangs. For those of us who have canvassed for the last few years that the the United States needed to reinvent itself to maintain relevance and leadership at the global level with the emergence of a new world economic order championed with the rise of China as a global economic super power able to compete,rival and even challenge the United States for global economic supremacy, the present trend of events does not come as a surprise. The Barak Obama administration spent the last eight years fighting to uphold a status quo globally that could no longer hold in the face of newly emerging facts and trends.

When Mikhail Gorbachev emerged in 1985 as the General Secretary and leader of the Soviet Union he came with his reforms of Glasnost {openness} and Perestroika {restructuring} purposely for the purpose of saving the Soviet economic and political system in a struggle that was doomed to failure. What his reforms succeeded in accomplishing was the quick demise of the Soviet Union and the emergence of the present world order that catapulted the United States to the position of a Super Power in a unipolar world, a position she has enjoyed for another quarter of a century until the emergence of China as first an economic Super power as she is now for all practical purposes and reality except, for the most deluded minds finding it difficult to grapple with reality.

The revival of Russia as a global military power and the ascendancy of India as a rising economic and military power alongside with the emergence of Germany as the dominant nation in the European Union have all weakened in no small measure the Anglo- American political/economic hegemony that has kept the US at the helm of world affairs since the end of the Second world war in 1945. 

While the US remains a major player in the affairs of the globe, her ability to unilaterally fashion and dictate the pace of world affairs is what is sadly coming to and end in this new emerging world order of which Donald Trump is the percuss-or and champion. The angst,rage and hostility being directed at Donald Trump's policies and even Presidency is coming from those who naturally resent this tide of change and direction of global affairs and who feel they will be losing out as the status quo is giving way. How this new world order will ultimately shapen out is still at best a matter of conjecture, but a re-approachment that will ease tensions between the United States and Russia and lead to the elimination of nuclear weapons while fashioning out increased co-operation between the leading nuclear states will definitely help to make for a better world and a safer planet for all.

The Warsaw Pact collapsed in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of the present world order, it is yet to be known what the fate of NATO and the European Union will be in the face of the re-rapprochements and realignments that will be taking place globally once Donald H Trump is sworn into office on the 20th of January.