Morning Star Editorial: The United States is destroying international co-operation when the world needs it most
US President Donald Trump gestures while boarding Air Force One at Morristown Airport, August 16, 2026YURI GAGARIN, the first man in space, famously said that looking at the world from the cosmos you realise it is “too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation.”
He spoke at the height of the cold war of a world under the shadow of nuclear war. That threat is still with us and growing.
But Met Office warnings that we face the strongest El Nino weather phenomenon on record, and that 2027 may well be the hottest year on record in consequence, underline the urgency of international co-operation on the other great menace of our age, the climate emergency.
El Nino — a weakening or reversing of the usual direction of trade winds over the Pacific, which slows the upswell of colder, deeper water to replace warm surface waters in the ocean that covers half the planet, with knock-on effects on worldwide weather — is a periodic event and scientists are not sure climate change has affected it.
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It should be obvious by now beyond the traditional anti-imperialist left that, as far as Britain’s foreign policy goes, we are on the wrong side: tied to a superpower bent on a globally destructive course.
However ministers might distance themselves from this or that aspect of Trumpism, the overarching narrative of our politics — the need to militarise for great-power conflict — serves the interests of the US-led bloc and its determination to maintain worldwide dominance. That dominance is being used to corral ever more countries toward social and ecological catastrophe.
It is time we jumped ship.
dizzy: I have been thinking along these same lines – that not only the UK but also European countries need to make a break with Trump and the United States. Why would anyone have warm relations with their own executioner?
