The world in 2025 is witnessing convulsions across governance and geopolitics – from trade wars to tech titans. These upheavals, exemplified by Donald Trump’s recent tariffs and Elon Musk’s role at the “Department of Government Efficiency,” signal a deeper civilisational shift. Through the lens of planetary phase shift theory, we can see these developments as symptoms of a turbulent ‘release’ stage in a global adaptive cycle – a period of systemic breakdown, incumbent resistance, and the chaotic clearing of ground for something new.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://ageoftransformation.org/tariffs-turbulence-and-transformation-trump-2-0-and-planetary-release
A new divide line is forming across the Atlantic, with a new groups of nations emerging in one side, the Traders, with Europe, Asia, Middle East and parts of Africa, and Fortress America on the other side of the line. Rules based cooperation versus competition and military force coercion . Curiously is also the old cultures, that suffered terribly under wars, and a new world who never experienced by themselves the catastrophe of wars in their own soil. Experience nd wisdom of the old world based on resilience, versus the inexperienced brat that pursues efficiency at all cost. The American Dream vs. the Harmonius Society …
This has clear echoes of Brexit to me … and in the same way that the European Union was rocked and destabilised by the United Kingdom’s departure in the previous decade, the bureaucratic framework that the United States created after the end of the Second World War is now the target of the oligarchs and their political operatives …