Faced with fading empires’ petulance, the global south must draw a red line under its relationship with them and forge new ties based on mutual respect
As Donald Trump rains chaos down upon the US – dismantling the rule of law trading in rage-fuelled nationalism and bullying the rest of the world – his ideology is now being eagerly imitated not just by the expected rogues of global politics, but by supposed bastions of democracy.
These democracies now wear only a mask of civility over that old colonial impulses: control, divide, exploit.