Trump, the Insurgent Breaks with 70 Years of American Foreign Policy

The following article by Mark Lander was posted on the New York Times website December 28, 2017:

President Trump has transformed the world’s view of the United States from an anchor of the international order into something more inward-looking and unpredictable.

A closer look at how President Trump’s unpredictable approach to foreign policy plays out on the global stage. By CHRIS CIRILLO and ROBIN LINDSAY on Publish Date December 28, 2017. Photo by Stephen Crowley/The New York Times.

WASHINGTON — President Trump was already revved up when he emerged from his limousine to visit NATO’s new headquarters in Brussels last May. He had just met France’s recently elected president, Emmanuel Macron, whom he greeted with a white-knuckle handshake and a complaint that Europeans do not pay their fair share of the alliance’s costs. Continue reading “Trump, the Insurgent Breaks with 70 Years of American Foreign Policy”