The erratic tariff policy pursued by the U.S. president and his administration has so far mainly served to strengthen ties between countries in the Global South and Beijing, and, where relevant, Moscow.
The European leaders who gathered Monday at the White House alongside Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy left with vague promises of U.S. support but no guarantees of a breakthrough to resolve the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
If the Alaska talks do indeed pave the way toward ending the war, this would mark the greatest foreign-policy achievement of Donald Trump’s presidency.
[T]rump has sent a message to every autocrat on the planet: aggression pays, and Western patience has its limits. History will harshly judge this capitulation dressed as diplomacy.