Donald Trump Wants to Divide Up the World With His ‘Friends’
Angry Planet2 Maj 2025

Donald Trump Wants to Divide Up the World With His ‘Friends’

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Great power competition has gotten old for President Donald Trump—never one for a fair fight. He’s looking for a little great power collusion instead, dividing the world with his best buds, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. This kind of thing isn’t new, though, Stacie Goddard, a professor at Wellesley, tells us, in fact it’s the 1800s on repeat. Well, look how that turned out… World War I, anybody?


BTW, check out her terrific article on this in Foreign Affairs magazine.


  • Welcome to the Concert of Europe
  • The post-Napoleon party
  • A taxonomy of aspirational Germans
  • Retvrn
  • Strong men, weak world
  • Government by Mafia
  • What becomes of the “middle powers”?
  • The era of aging dictators
  • The long breakdown
  • Empire without ickiness
  • Turns out might does, in fact, make right

The Rise and Fall of Great-Power Competition


The Concert of Europe

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