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It is not easy keeping pace with President Donald Trump’s destruction of the world as we know it.
In recent months, he has effectively torn up NATO, launched his anarcho-imperialism worldwide and, now, blockaded Persian Gulf oil from the world.
This lurching around, spilling aircraft carriers into dark corners, is not some game of five-dimensional chess.
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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific's leading geo-politics and economics portal.
He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.