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WASHINGTON -China has now assumed the mantle of fighting climate change, a global crusade that the United States once led. Russia has taken over Syrian peace talks, also once the purview of the American administration, whose officials Moscow recently deigned to invite to negotiations only as observers.
France and Germany are often now the countries that fellow members of NATO look to, after President Donald Trump wavered on how supportive his administration would be toward the North Atlantic alliance.
And in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the U.S., once the only mediator all sides would accept, has found itself isolated after Trump's decision to declare that the U.S. recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
In his wide-ranging speech on national security last week, Trump highlighted what he called the broadening of U.S. influence throughout the world.
But one year into his presidency, many international leaders, diplomats and foreign policy experts argue that he has reduced U.S. influence or altered it in ways that are less constructive. On a range of policy issues, Trump has taken positions that disqualified the United States from the debate or rendered it irrelevant, these critics say.
Even in countries that have earned Trump's praise, such as India, there is concern about Trump's unpredictability will he be a reliable partner? and what many overseas view as his isolationism.
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MAGA - Make America Go Alone
Takket
(21,600 posts)Deplorable actually think we can hold the mantle of world leadership through xenophobia. We live in a global community where you either lead, follow, or whither and die. Drumpf if executing the latter on behalf of Putin
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,792 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)unless those who are elected/appointed prevent it's demise..
Iggo
(47,561 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)And don't expect to be seen as anything other than a circus.