Author: David E. Sanger
Published on: 11/03/2025 | 00:00:00

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How Trump Shook the World in 50 Days The system America took 80 years to assemble proved surprisingly fragile in the face of Trump’s assault. Without declaring a reversal of course or offering a strategic rationale, he has pushed the United States to switch sides in the Ukraine war. Mr. Trump has imposed tariffs on his allies after describing them as leeches on the American economy. No one knows how successful Mr. Trump will be in ripping asunder what every American president has built. It could be four years or more before we know whether these changes are permanent or whether the guardians of the old system will hunker down. By then, the Western allies may have moved on from an America-centric system. “Nothing will stand in our way,” he said. “There is a breaking of the trust with allies we may never be able to repair” Mr. Trump had sounded increasingly martial about the need for the United States to control Greenland. The effort to rip apart the U.S. Agency for International Development took just a few weeks. Mr. Trump and Elon Musk recognized that foreign aid is so derided by the MAGA movement as a hotbed of liberal values and corruption. Dismantling it, they knew, would strike fear into the hearts of government employees who realized they could be next. Groups that do similar work and were once lauded by Republicans are on life support. Trump has turned U.S. Policy on the Russo-Ukraine war 180 degrees. But Europe has dug deeper with the Ukrainians, essentially dividing NATO’s largest power from all but a few of its 31 other members. Mr. Bolton contends that Mr. Trump “does not have a philosophy or a national security grand strategy” But aides are scrambling, with little success, to impose a logic to it all. There is no evidence that this is working. David E. Sanger Our Coverage of the War in Ukraine Concessions for Peace: Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Ukraine would have to make concessions over land that Russia has taken as part of any agreement to end the war. The Eastern Front: Ukrainian forces have stalled the Russian offensive in the eastern Donetsk region in recent months.

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