The pre-Trump world was no haven of peace and stability

Some of President Donald Trump ’s typically bombastic foreign-policy pronouncements have sounded a little, well, imperialist.

But behind the trolling and sabre-rattling there is invariably a serious objective.

Trump seems much more serious about gaining greater control over Greenland .

The Economist claims, that under Trump , the US will abandon any commitment to settled borders and universal values.

Those now angsty over a possible foreign-policy turn under Trump seem to have blanked out the past three decades .

They certainly appear to have forgotten the catastrophic invasion of Iraq in 2003 , launched initially on the false pretext that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, and then justified in terms of regime change’ and democracy promotion.

Over the course of eight long years , Western intervention plunged Iraq into civil war, caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, destabilised the entire Middle East .