At the recent Munich Security Conference, US Vice-President J.D. Vance in a blunt speech reprimanded the leaders of Europe for their duplicity qua the fundamental principles that constitute the holy grail of democracy. However, what got missed amid the fulminations was that Mr Vance’s diatribe underlined the revivification of the conceptual insularity that had underpinned the first term of President Trump. The address underscored that Jacksonian impulses would be the beacon of US foreign policy over the next four years. The above postulates were evidenced by the Trump administration’s decision not to sign the Paris Declaration on AI cooperation once...