This week we scrubbed the decks and sounded the five bell alarm.

Donald Trump had only gone and done it. Tariffs. Thousands of them.

What could the greatest regression from the norms of globalisation since 1945 mean for a show called Multipolarity?

Even better: what would it mean for the world?

With the MAGA base both boisterous and uneasy in the face of this dawning reality, we wargamed out the answers.

Until, at 20:10 local time, news came of a stunning reversal...