Yes, Trump is destroying it. But this order was crumbling already. The reason is that the "smart" people from the past believed they could always count on being

Yes, Trump is destroying it. But this order was crumbling already. The reason is that the "smart" people from the past believed they could always count on being the middlemen of the world. They believed that other countries would always be happy to send their best people and products to the US so that American companies would trade their branded versions around the world for a high markup. The reality is that other countries slowly understood that they had everything they needed to start trading among themselves without the need of a middleman. And once this realization sinks in it is difficult to go back to the status quo of depending on a single country.