COMMENT | The way the US has tried changing the world’s economy, politics, and security simultaneously is a clear sign of a coordinated affair between all their top leaders designed to shake up the world and push it in the US’ chosen directions.

There is insufficient thought as to how their allies might react to this. No quarter is given to the well-being of others over important issues, and the limits have been pushed like they have never been before.

US President Donald Trump has adopted disruption in diplomacy to force change, just as some of his prominent business partners have chosen to use that in many of their business undertakings, toppling old-school practices and putting many out of business.

Diplomacy, however, is a much more delicate matter than business. Companies and their leaders prosper and die and new ones take their place all the time. It’s an ongoing process in business - disruption has taken place from time immemorial, only much more rapidly in recent times.

Unlike businesses, most nations don’t die, they remain. When disruption takes place, they reinvent themselves and move forward or don’t and slide back. Some long-cherished things get realigned or even destroyed...