The theatre of geopolitics today resembles a jungle without any order or rules, leading to chaos. Donald Trump's America, the mighty lion that once sat at the top, has almost abdicated. In the ensuing anarchy, China is prowling with calculated ambition, Russia is trying to reassert itself, and Israel, as author and public intellectual Yuval Noah Harari argues, has gone rogue.
This multipolar frenzy and leadership vacuum has thrust nations into an unpredictable landscape where they have to seek opportunistic alliances and strategies for survival.
Lion Turns Into Scavenger
In a recent interview with the Financial Times, Harari argues that Trump’s a transactional president who evaluates nations on the basis of the cards they hold. Harari describes Trump’s worldview as a “mosaic of fortress