Trump's tweets nixed the G7 deal that was done in this photo. It marks a *stage* in the breakup of a rules-based global order. Analysis1/~ 
2/~ first problem: two major players in de facto global order not at table: China + Russia - hence G7 now another battlefield for real power
3/~ May: leads nation that voted for Thatcherism in One Country & elite in pocket of Russian, Saudi ditty money...
4/~ Trump like Mussolini, confident that arms folded his flamboyant gestures and rule breaking set agenda of West
5/~ Abe of 🇯🇵 leads a country wedded to mercantilism & national industrial protectionism...
6/~ Merkel, who has gamed the Eurozone to impose penury on its southern periphery & smashed Greek democracy
7/~ Trudeau and Macron, the last ppl standing in defence of multilateral, rules based order - led and picked fight with Trump
8/~ Conte, already checked out of the Ever-Closer-Union Hotel... now what does Trump's nixing of the Communique signal to them!!??!
9/~ Trump signalled this is an era of gestural economic nationalism, where only authoritarians who can deliver their own electorates matter
10/~ For EU this means unite & fight or expire as a project: Merkel stands in the way, May in way out, Conte at the checkout desk...
11/~ for Britain it means even more that, despite Brexit, we have to orient to Europe first, emerging markets second: USA now a dud ally
12/~ Trump part of a nexus of right wing Anglophone politicians prepared to allow Putin to carve up Europe. That's what he's colluding with
13/~ Don't accept rules based order is dead because of one failed G7 - but like globalisation (and a bicycle) it needs forward momentum
14/~ However, G7 fail strengthens my argument here opendemocracy.net/neweconomics/s…
15/~ me and @jaynescarlett led 3x board games modelling global system failure at @Volksbuehne and @CSSDLondon - always same outcome....
16/~ ... [in the game] small countries become magnets for systemic political risks; big countries happy to let small ones go fascist, bankrupt, failed state - as they "collect" the crisis as a kind of wastepipe...
17/~ For the left the following priorities: in USA - defeat Trump with a left candidate prepared to re-engage with the global order + contain Putin. In EU: scrap Lisbon, promote growth, protect European jobs/industries...
18/~ For UK: mitigate Brexit by sticking as close as possible to EEA, CU and Common Security & Foreign policy.
19/~ Here's what I wrote in Postcapitalism (2015). What just happened gives decisive momentum to the "second scenario" outlined here...
20/~ and it means, for the left, internationalism has to supersede globalism. We need, for starters a #LeftG7 - a frank meeting of Socialist, Democrat and Radical Left leaders design a new rules-based order - because this one is heading for ruination
