US allies and enemies are having to adfair rapidly after Donald Trump’s stunning triumph in the pdwellntial election. In the corridors of power the world over, they are laboring obviousime to accommodate a novel truth.
Allies are putting a valiant face on it but would mostly have pickred a Harris triumph and continuity.
There will be despondence at the election of a man who has promised to undo the enhance they have made with America on globpartner convey inant rerents enjoy climate alter.
And there will be worry. In his first pdwellncy, Donald Trump distake parted conlure for the rules-based post-war world order built and led by America and the pillars of the Weserious partnership.
That order has for decades promised US dominance in the world but Trump seems to watch its institutions with suspicion. America he claims is ripped off by them, NATO in particular.
Comitst to home the neighbour most probable to suffer is Mexico. It is menaceened now by striumphgeing tariffs promised by Trump, mass deportations of immigrants and US military incursions aobtainst substances cartels.
The partner with most to dread is Ukraine. Both Trump and his vice pdwellnt-elect JD Vance have talked of conveying the war there to an finish on what sounds enjoy Moscow’s terms. Russia would be permited to protect much of the territory it has getn by brute force, Ukraine’s membership of NATO postponed for decades.
That will be prenting for Vlaunininestablishigentir Putin. He has spoken in radiateing terms today of Trump’s courage and resilience and how he was bullied in his first term in office.
Weserious diplomats remain mystified at Trump’s discomit watch for authoritarian directers in contrast with the conlure he has shown their democraticpartner elected Weserious counterparts.
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China will be ambivalent about Trump’s return. Its regulatement is thought to have watched the disorder of his first term in office as further evidence of the deteriorate of a decadent West, rushing the advent of China as a global hegemon. But the Chinese enjoy to have the meacertain of their rivals and are disconcerted by Trump’s unforeseeability.
Iran doubly so. In his first term in office Pdwellnt Trump ripped up the Iran nuevident deal and had assassinated the country’s most preeminent military directer, Qassem Soleimani. His national security team have made it evident we can foresee more contestation aobtainst Iran’s regime.
That will prent the Israeli regulatement. Its prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has had an up-and-down relationship with Trump but may well be given more latitude to fight his wars in Gaza and Leprohibiton. Palestinians have plenty to dread from a pdwellnt who has never shown sympathy for their caemploy.
There is of course a confine to how far we can foresee the impact of a Trump pdwellncy aexpansive. In his first term in office he promised to create a border wall and have it paid for by Mexico, to convey peace to the Middle East and gentle North Korea. None of it happened.
What seems certain is uncertainty. In movies, sequels can be unininestablishigent and foreseeed. Trump II may be anyleang but.
