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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump claims he's boosting U.S. influence, but many foreign leaders see America in retreat
Tracy Wilkinson, Alexandra Zavis and Shashank Bengali
December 26, 2017. 3:00 a.m.
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 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 Trumps 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 Trumps praise, such as India, there is concern about Trumps unpredictability will he be a reliable partner? and what many overseas view as his isolationism.
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Trump claims he's boosting U.S. influence, but many foreign leaders see America in retreat (Original Post)
DonViejo
Dec 2017
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RKP5637
(67,112 posts)1. Many likely now see the US (Trump) as a threat to international stability IMO than any stabilizing
influence.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)2. If you believe trump
I got a bridge to sell you. Its almost always the opposite of the truth.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)3. Warning to India
Do you really have to question if Trump will be a reliable partner? The answer is NO
dalton99a
(81,566 posts)4. So much winning and influencing
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)5. Oh, we're increasing influence, alright.
Just not with the groups we want, you syphilitic fuckstick.