There are years when the world goes through some fundamental, convulsive change

1968, with the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Paris riots and the anti-Vietnam War protests in America, was one of them. 

1989, the year of the Tiananmen massacre, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the implosion of the Soviet empire, was another.

I was on hand to see each of these things happen, and from that perspective it seems to me that, only seven weeks in, 2025 could be a year like that: a time when the basic assumptions about the way our world works are fed into the shredder.

The basic reason, of course, is Donald Trump.

Since the end of the World War Two, each one of the 13 US presidents before Trump's current term in office has at least paid lip service to a set of key geopolitical principles: 

that America's own security depended on protecting Europe from Russia, and the non-Communist countries of Asia against China.

No one in the Trump circle today, it seems, will cough discreetly and say, "Mr President, maybe you should consider rowing back on that statement."

President Putin, having made the costly decision to invade Ukraine three years ago, looks likely to get away with it, and prosper.

If that happens, then 2025 will indeed be remembered as a key year: a moment when the history of the world changed, and nothing was ever quite the same again.

John Simpson World Affairs Editor BBC 23 february 2025

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd0ng4eyr3xo

RE: Många verkar utgå ifrån att Trumpismen kommer att bli bestående. Men det är väl inte så säkert?