Geography has given the US unrivaled security. Trump is destroying it | Gil Barndollar and Rajan Menon

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The US’s great­est strate­gic advan­tage is its friend­ly neigh­bors. But its ties to Cana­da and Mex­i­co are being under­mined The secret to Amer­i­can pow­er and pre-emi­­nence was best summed up more than a cen­tu­ry ago. Amer­i­ca, observed Jean Jules Jusserand, France’s ambas­sador to the Unit­ed States dur­ing the first world war, “is blessed among the nations”.…

Trump’s first 100 days: America First president is overturning the world order — Reuters

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Trump’s first 100 days: Amer­i­ca First pres­i­dent is over­turn­ing the world order  Reuters Analy­sis | An unpop­u­lar pres­i­dent con­tin­ues to push rad­i­cal changes on the coun­try  The Wash­ing­ton Post The most con­se­quen­tial moments from the first 100 days of Trump’s sec­ond term  PBS Trump’s first 100 days seen as bring­ing big changes, but still too much focus on tariffs…

The untold story of how Trump shocked Europe in a few short days

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PARIS — Euro­pean lead­ers knew Don­ald Trump’s sec­ond term as U.S. pres­i­dent would be a chal­lenge. But the mag­ni­tude and speed with which Wash­ing­ton broke from decades-long defense poli­cies forced gov­ern­ments across the con­ti­nent to con­front the unthink­able: Is the U.S. now more of a threat than a part­ner? POLITICO reporters have dug deep into…