Withdrawal suicidal for US

The executive order signed by US President Donald Trump, withdrawing America from more than five dozen international organisations, marks a decisive turn towards an ostrich-like foreign policy—burying its head in unilateral bravado while the world reshapes itself without Washington.

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In one sweeping move, the United States has squandered the commanding position it painstakingly built over decades in institutions meant to foster cooperation on security, law, trade, economics, and human rights, This is not retrenchment born of strategic prudence; it is abdication masquerading as strength. By cutting ties with forums across the United Nations system and beyond, the Trump administration has reduced the United States to an island unto itself, voluntarily forfeiting the role of global leader. The claim by Secretary of State Marco Rubio that these bodies are wasteful, redundant, or “dominated by progressive ideology” is less an argument than an excuse. International influence is not measured by immediate transactional gains but by sustained presence, persuasion, and the ability to shape norms.