Hope out of chaos: how the dark era of Trump is creating a new approach to global politics

A woman embraces her husband, a returned Ukrainian prisoner of war. The idea of a European Defence Union including Ukraine, the UK and Norway, is increasingly being discussed. Photograph: Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters

Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, Brazil’s ambassador to London, had no difficulty joining the dystopians describing the modern world in a recent speech, a world suffering from “global warming and environmental degradation, multiple conflicts, rising military budgets, disregard for international law and international humanitarian law, disruptions to trade, erosion of democratic governance and technological developments that are met with excitement and fear”.

Yet beneath the surface, he said, “something is happening. Something is moving.”