CNN
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Mankind’s achievements over the millennia have been bountiful. Their evolutionary fruits – from fire, to vaccines, to the art of diplomacy – were never low hanging; they were imagined before they were ever grasped.
But once held, they became indispensable. Until now that is, as 100 days into his presidency US President Donald Trump seems determined to throw this painful learning to the wind, risking a world forced into reverse.
A torrent of tariffs, unleashed against the better judgement of experts, yet exalted by Trump’s acolytes as the work of a deal-making genius are a case in point. So too is his willingness to throw allies to the wind, by…
