President Donald Trump is calling on people to distrust environmental measures and ... the scientific community. He will have to prove there are no floods caused by unrelenting rain ...and that the wildfires in his country have not been caused by ... climate change.
[I]n a world of interdependence, international cooperation and the strengthening of multilateral institutions will be vital to preventing competition leading to conflict.
It wouldn’t have cost Trump anything to show a clear intent to deter in a strategically crucial moment; it wouldn’t even have undermined his efforts in Ukraine.