World order change coming?

No more free rides for nations that betray the generosity of the American taxpayer.

He also warned:

[We] will send our kids to war only when we must.

It is more than likely that the administration of Kamala Harris if she wins will take the same position as Trump in requiring NATO and other US allies to pay a great deal more to secure the 'privilege' of American protection.

G7 and NATO citizenry perhaps can console themselves that the insistence by the US that it will no longer be the major paymaster of NATO may have a positive counter effect on their foreign policy allegiance and dependence on the US. Should this happen, it may provide a first step to the end of the war in Ukraine and help bring genuine peace and security to the continent.

Elsewhere in the world, Asia-Pacific leaders should take notice too. What G7 and NATO members will have to deal with from the financial year 2025 onwards will have to be reckoned for in the defence budgets in Australia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines where some of the over 750 military bases of the US around the world are located or in close proximity.

They will find - as Australians are with AUKUS - that the price to pay for being deputy sheriff to the US will cost them and the next generation more than an exorbitant monetary sum. This does not include the consequence of being party to a war over which Canberra and Oz war hawks will have little or no control, and from which there will be no victors.