It isn't that I don't like Trump. I do not like what he is representing the US to be. The US as a nation was not formed with the intent of what you are implying as essentially "uncontrolled multi-lateralism". Nigel you are mis-using the word and mis-understanding "multi-literalism". Here from Wikipedia is definition of multi-lateralism.-Multilateralism was defined by Miles Kahler as "international governance" or global governance of the "many," and its central principle was "opposition [to] bilateral discriminatory arrangements that were believed to enhance the leverage of the powerful over the weak and to increase international conflict."[1]



What the present international leaders are doing, and have been doing is essentially NOT multi-lateralism. They have been promoting that their intent is multi-lateralism. The true intent is ONLY "enhancing the leverage of the powerful over the weak and to increase international conflict". The present administration is so blatantly mis-representing even the intent. This misrepresentation of intent is "criminal" action. Intent is so critical, especially within legal context. You are falling for the criminal action and that is why it is so bad. You( and I mean this in the general sense, not you personally) become beguiled, misled by the messages and the actions. This is duplicity between words and acts. This is criminal action in action. It is so hard to distinguish and make sense of because of the duplicity, Then, there are tiers through time that make the picture more confusing and difficult to interpret, especially historically. The time interval is being compressed exponentially, and globally because of internet access of many. So, the decrease in historical time makes mis-information not only more dangerous, but more critical. In the past, it took much longer to interpret mis-information and decipher propaganda. Today, because information can be disseminated so quickly, it is difficult to even sort through what is valid, what isn't, what should be etc... However, in the meantime, and I mean that this time frame is getting really mean, like nasty with very bad, bullying and criminal intent, political maneuverings will tip into the big nasty of very nasty warfare instead of the controlled skirmishes that have been occurring over the last 50 years.



Trump is promoting that he is for free-trade etc. etc. and what could then be interpreted as multi-lateralism in a free self-balancing (supposedly) free-form open system. He is doing just the opposite. He in reality is not promoting any positive "economic" policy for the majority of US citizens or businesses. He in reality is only promoting further monopolization of a few corporate structures. He in reality is only promoting the "status quo" which is even further monopolization and "M" and "A" into further consolidation and monopolization, leaving the majority of people not even in any control whatsoever to even attempt to establish any kind of SMALL ENTERPRISE operations due to usurping political and commercial power by a relatively few families internationally. For wages in the US to be stagnate over a 50 year period, for average wage to be $20 per hour in 2018, says it all. There is no economic policy being established, only "control" policies to suppress and depress an ever increasing majority of only limited-wage-earners.



My message is not that I don't like Trump. I am not playing personality gamesmanship. There is a bit more at stake. The stakeholders that are supposed to be the stakeholders are selling the land right out from under the majority of the US citizenry. My message is that the game is no longer even a debate about right and left political maneuvering or even good or bad political moves. My message is that the game is now criminal maneuvering only. The reactions of the political leadership in Europe to even the latest remarks by Grinnell in Germany, reveals shock. The US citizenry are totally desensitized and accepting of what is going on in DC. Looks at the headlines on "THE HILL"- Look at the behavior that is being tolerated as normal.. Sorry, but the behavior and the words that American leadership are promoting are NOT NORMAL. They are anything BUT, and hopefully leadership in other nations worldwide can recognize what should be recognized as very bad, and very wrong, and many times- in fact- criminal actions.