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In the last few weeks of February 2025, and going forward, we have seen the United States of America on the global scene diplomatically returning to an isolationist policy on the world stage.  

This is an isolationist stance that was first employed historically during the 1920s, with its inward focus, especially after the disastrous stock market crash, and its subsequent experience of “The Great Depression” as well as the fear of communist uprisings within its nation, a fear known internationally as “The Red Scare” of the 1920s.

Today, the “America First” policy, based now primarily on ‘transactional relationships’ with world nations (including those with whom it has been allied to and has had and enjoyed strong trading, economic, political and diplomatic ties),  seems mainly to serve and advance the newly emerging isolationist policy of the United States.  

Some political detractors and critics even regard this stance as underscoring a neocolonialist policy towards other nations of the world, now being asked, despite their right of sovereignty, to govern themselves at the behest and pleasure of the United States, serving from a distance as an absentee landlord overseer to other nations.

America’s isolationist policy, spearheaded by the current government, demonstrates a rejection of an ‘open market’ system and consequently its rejection of a reliance on an earlier economic policy that was based on asymmetrical free trade relationships with other nations.

Today, the current United States government policies appear to advocate a ‘protectionist’  stance against the goods and merchandise of other nations,  in the form of increased tariffs on these nations, imposed to preserve and maintain economic guardrails in the defense of the United States.

These guardrails are being enforced locally by the newly established Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and by other governmental agencies, to articulate America’s economic strengths, and to no longer constrain America by a world order that is governed essentially by a libertarian international industrial trading system.

While the current policy of the United States may appear on the surface to be that of land acquisition and territorial expansion, at the end of the day there appears nevertheless to be an inherently deeper, even cultural ideological protective mindset that is driving the current direction of America’s isolationist policies.  That cultural mindset, it may be argued, informs its peoples, and all nations as well, to preserve their resources.

And so these conservative policies appear to be based, perhaps psychologically, on a nation’s protective stance to isolate itself, first away from any presumed liberalism within the United States; and secondly, outwardly and beyond, towards other world nations, requiring them (with the European economic community as an example) to become more independently self-sufficient on their own resources; thus also becoming less deferential to the United States.

Ultimately, in the making of a proposed new world order of self-sufficiency, America’s seeming isolationist policy, postured by the slogan to “Make America Great Again” (MAGA),  while amplifying its inherent conservative policies, may after all, be primarily the goal to defend,  preserve and, if necessary, expand its unquestioned power, wealth, dominion and authority over other countries and nations.

In the final analysis, this is the new ethics that is being advanced by the current administration of a new world order government of the people, for the people, and by the people; with America first; and with other nations as an afterthought.