When Donald Trump was elected US president in 2016, the world was a different place. Concepts like protectionism or populism were far removed from the public discourse. Ideas like “free trade” or “globalization” were not anathema. Chasing sovereignty seemed opposite to the direction the world was moving in.
Geopolitics was still generational, with major events spread apart by decades.
Then, everything changed.
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