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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Andrew Roth Global affairs correspondent

Might is right: US ‘foreign policy’ held hostage to mad king Trump’s whims

A close-up shot of a group of protesters, one of whom is holding up a poster of map of Greenland in the colours of the US flag with a large black cross over it and the words 'our land, not yours'
Greenlanders in Nuuk protest against Donald Trump’s plans to take control of their country. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

One year into the second Trump administration, an actual US foreign policy remains just a nice idea. Instead, the world has been forced to adapt to the world according to Donald Trump: one increasingly shaped by his erratic shifts and unpredictable decisions, his fury at perceived slights and his growing desire to stamp his legacy in the model of an imperial leader from centuries past.

Think of it as the mad king’s court, where every day is a carnival.

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