If the President of the United States behaves primarily as the chief negotiator for corporate America, then alliances themselves become contingent commodities.
Even as Washington may call and claim victory, notional or real, the global pain of the brash and so-called bold and illegal strikes will be real for years to come.
Trump behaves like a child who goes trick-or-treating at Halloween. People, including the Norwegian prime minister, don’t know whether to laugh or cry.