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America is turning its back on the world,
Kabaservice said
The United States has done a lot to stand up sort of multilateral institutions – the UN and others – that are based around these ideas,
said Matthew Duss, the executive vice president at the Center for International PolicyA big part of his world view is really his negative feelings towards the current order, where others appear to be rising,
Burrows saidHe’s withdrawing the US from the rest of the world, particularly economically,
Burrows, a veteran of the US Department of State and CIA, told Al JazeeraThe fact is that the benefits of globalisation were very maldistributed, and some people up at the top made enormous plutocratic sums of money, and very little of that flowed down to the mass of the working class,
Kabaservice told Al JazeeraHe does believe that the United States – because of its role as world policeman, which he’s not necessarily in love with – has been shouldering a lot of the security burden of the world without getting proper compensation,
Parsi told Al JazeeraThe Trump doctrine is ‘smash and grab’, take what you want from others and let your allies do the same,
said Josh Ruebner, a lecturer at Georgetown University’s Program on Justice and PeaceYou’re shifting not from the politics of domination towards restraint; you’re shifting from the politics of global domination to a more limited form of domination,
Parsi told Al JazeeraHis actual legacy will be that he has torn down the global system that the US created,
said Burrows, of the Stimson Center
We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future.”
The late Secretary of State Madeleine Albright famously said in 1998
The post-war global order is not just obsolete, it is now a weapon being used against us,
Trump’s Secretary of State Marco Rubio told senators during his confirmation hearing in JanuaryHe’s an aggressive unilateralist, and in many ways, he’s just an old-school imperialist,
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America does not need other countries as much as other countries need us,
White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told reporters earlier this month
But the United States has always found ways to violate that violate these norms and laws when it when it serves our purposes,
he added, pointing to former US President Joe Biden’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza and President George W Bush’s policies after the 9/11 attacks, which included extraordinary rendition, torture, invasion and prolonged occupationHe likes the idea that maybe the United States is a great power, sort of in a 19th-century model, and it lets the other great powers have their own sphere of influence,
he saidIn the broad span of history, Trump will be seen as the person who committed terrible unforced errors that led to the end of the American century and the beginning of the Chinese century,
he saidBut at the same time, he somehow believes that the US … will be able to tell other countries to stop fighting, to do whatever the US wants,
he saidWhen France sneezes, the rest of Europe catches cold.”
He famously said
As we see with Ukraine, a major world power (Russia) has changed the map of Europe and the price has been high in Ukrainian blood and American treasure. This may be just the beginning,
Zellen said
Canadians have been angered by Trump's comments about Canada being the 51st state and his disparaging remarks about former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as would the citizens of any sovereign nation,
Hampson said