Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

Everyone keeps asking why the world feels so hectic at the moment.  If life were a movie, they'd call it One Battle After Another. Winston Peters, Judith Collins, and their counterparts in Europe and elsewhere all agree we’re living in the most dangerous era since the World Wars. But why? Yes there’s Trump, he’s unpredictable and a bit nuts, but Trump is really just a symptom of a wider problem, which is basically the decline of America. The last death rattle of a superpower who knows its time is almost up.   China’s military spending grew from one sixth to one third of America’s in the past decade. India is about to overtake Germany as the third largest economy in the world. The Russians are still hammering Ukraine, four years into a European war. Now Iran. But the world has lived through bigger wars before. It's survived bigger battles. It survived the Spanish flu, Covid. What’s really changed that makes this feel more doomsday is basically two things: globalisation and technology. It took us