Nobody should be surprised at Donald Trump’s isolationism, since the US president favoured high tariffs and tight borders well before he entered electoral politics. He campaigned on the America First ticket in 2016 and then pursued his vision, chaotically, during his first term. Trump is now seeking a broader zero-sum view of the world, backs Russia and is pitting an emerging alliance of powerful states against those who must submit, with Ukraine the current victim. The philosopher Yuval Noah Harari contributed a piece to the Financial Times on April 26, which went beyond exasperation with Donald Trump’s multiple trade wars to…

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