{"id":72572,"date":"2026-04-24T12:03:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/the-guardian-view-on-germany-japan-and-the-end-of-the-postwar-order-as-us-alliances-crumble-a-new-world-emerges-editorial\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:03:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:03:20","slug":"the-guardian-view-on-germany-japan-and-the-end-of-the-postwar-order-as-us-alliances-crumble-a-new-world-emerges-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/the-guardian-view-on-germany-japan-and-the-end-of-the-postwar-order-as-us-alliances-crumble-a-new-world-emerges-editorial\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian view on Germany, Japan and the end of the postwar order: as US alliances crumble, a new world emerges | Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Developments in Berlin and Tokyo show how far the strategic environment has shifted in response to authoritarian threat and American unpredictability<\/p>\n<p>When Donald Trump hosted Sanae Takaichi, the Japanese prime minister, last month, he could not resist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/19\/trump-mocks-japan-pearl-harbor-iran-war\">a gratuitous reference to Pearl Harbor<\/a>. The US president is impelled to trash longstanding alliances. He has done more than anyone to demolish\u00a0the postwar global order.<\/p>\n<p>This week alone, the Polish president, Donald Tusk, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/1a5a2502-a45a-40c1-af6f-b30ecc34bacb?syn-25a6b1a6=1\">questioned<\/a> whether the US would be \u201cloyal\u201d to Nato if Russia attacked. A Pentagon memo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/pentagon-email-floats-suspending-spain-nato-other-steps-over-iran-rift-source-2026-04-24\/\">reportedly floated<\/a> suspending Spain from Nato and reviewing support for the British claim to sovereignty over the Falkland Islands. And a report said US officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/national-security\/iran-war-complicates-contingency-plans-to-defend-taiwan-some-u-s-officials-say-4384f7c1\">believe<\/a> that it has depleted munitions so rapidly in Iran as to put in\u00a0question contingency plans to defend Taiwan against a Chinese invasion in the near future.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/apr\/24\/the-guardian-view-on-germany-japan-and-the-end-of-the-postwar-order-as-us-alliances-crumble-a-new-world-emerges\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developments in Berlin and Tokyo show how far the strategic environment has shifted in response to authoritarian threat and American unpredictability When Donald Trump hosted Sanae Takaichi, the Japanese prime minister, last month, he could not resist a gratuitous reference to Pearl Harbor. The US president is impelled to trash longstanding alliances. He has done &#8230; <a title=\"The Guardian view on Germany, Japan and the end of the postwar order: as US alliances crumble, a new world emerges | Editorial\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/the-guardian-view-on-germany-japan-and-the-end-of-the-postwar-order-as-us-alliances-crumble-a-new-world-emerges-editorial\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Guardian view on Germany, Japan and the end of the postwar order: as US alliances crumble, a new world emerges | Editorial\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}