The world as we know it is changing before our eyes.

Ever since America elected Donald Trump as its President, the United States policy has been pushed by a rich populist stream.

On the one hand, this policy seems to believe that in stemming the asylum seekers invasion, American rights and persons are being protected.

We have seen in past days children separated from their parents and kept in cages until US public opinion rose in protest. The unanimous judgment on this was that this was unseemly and unjust and it has been removed.

Now in the US and also in Europe a war on migrants has been unleashed. What will happen to those millions fleeing from war, famine, disease and left wandering along the dusty roads of the world is not known.

At the same time the US has unleashed a trade war against Europe and against China. We are still at the very outset of this war and it will not be an easy situation.

It is true that this Trump campaign has led Harley-Davidson to cut its production in the US and to relocate some units outside the US - which is surly what Trump did not intend to see.

But at the very least this trade war will see the prices of objects rise on both sides of the Atlantic.

While up to now the world was ruled by cooperation and friendly competition, the illusion that American interests and workers were being discriminated against will most probably cause job losses to European and Chinese workers but also to US workers.

Where previously the world focused on removing obstacles to free trade the new world leaders, especially the US, now seem focused on putting more and more obstacles along the way of free trade, free movement of peoples and growth in general.

So far, we are seeing the building blocks of this new policy being put in place. Soon we will begin to see the consequences.

As has already happened with Brexit, people warned what would be the consequences and already, months before the UK exits from the EU, we are seeing the consequences. Another populist victory now coming to boil.

Still, that is the consequence of elections and free votes. The peoples of the US and the UK willingly voted one way, fully warned about the consequences. The rest will only have to wait and see the consequences.