What the Trump win means for......a world in turmoil

Donald Trump's victory on Tuesday is a tectonic global event that will reshape both the international political system and international economic arrangement.

- Prashant Jha

Before examining the implications of a Trump presidency in various specific domains, the fundamental issue to internalise for all global capitals, even more than 2016, is that this is a new America. This America is not going to pretend to play nice, engage in liberal hypocrisies, or even deign to show an interest in issues that don't fundamentally affect its own core interests. Instead, this America will define its core interests in the context of the security of its homeland, economic self-reliance and domestic job creation, technological and military superiority and protections of Christians.

This America will be more focused and less spread out than the America of the post Cold War era. This America will be happy to do deals with all actors, based on its interests, without the baggage of neither history nor with the obligations embedded in past agreements. And this America does not care about multilateralism, and does not want to pretend there is any global good beyond the specific good of particular States.

Specifically, at the cost of being speculative, but based on the current conversations inside the Trump ecosystem, here is what it may mean for the following actors:

Ukraine