Donald Trump is remaking the world. But he really won’t like the result | Nesrine Malik

As an errat­ic pres­i­dent impos­es his inter­na­tion­al doc­trine, coun­tries are forg­ing more sta­ble alliances. His US will be weak­er, not stronger One of the ways in which Don­ald Trump’s regime obscures and dis­tracts is by draw­ing our eyes con­stant­ly to the US – its raw pow­er to intim­i­date and bul­ly oth­er nations, and its vast…

Like it or not, the rules-based order is no more

Ivo Daalder, for­mer U.S. ambas­sador to NATO, is CEO of the Chica­go Coun­cil on Glob­al Affairs and host of the week­ly pod­cast “World Review with Ivo Daalder.” He writes POLITICO’s Across the Pond col­umn. A few weeks ago, when Dan­ish Prime Min­is­ter Mette Fred­erik­sen spoke with soon-to-be U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump about his insis­tence on…

Major international crisis ‘much more likely’ in Trump’s second term, says his ex-national security adviser

John Bolton deliv­ers scathing cri­tique of Trump’s lack of knowl­edge or coher­ent strat­e­gy: ‘I’m very wor­ried’ A major inter­na­tion­al cri­sis is “much more like­ly” in Don­ald Trump’s sec­ond term giv­en the president-elect’s “inabil­i­ty to focus” on for­eign pol­i­cy, a for­mer US ambas­sador to the Unit­ed Nations (UN) has warned. John Bolton, who at 17 months…

Mitch McConnell warns Trump to avoid ‘isolationist’ foreign policy in second term

Repub­li­cans’ out­go­ing US Sen­ate leader takes issue with for­eign pol­i­cy think­ing in party’s Maga move­ment Mitch McConnell, the Repub­li­cans’ out­go­ing leader in the US Sen­ate, has called on Don­ald Trump to avoid an “iso­la­tion­ist” for­eign pol­i­cy dur­ing his loom­ing sec­ond pres­i­den­cy – and urged him to back up a surge in Amer­i­can “hard pow­er” by…

Poll: Most Americans want US leadership on global affairs, increased defense spending

PENTAGON  — A major­i­ty of Amer­i­cans want the Unit­ed States to lead on the glob­al stage with a strong mil­i­tary, and a super­ma­jor­i­ty want to increase nation­al defense spend­ing, accord­ing to the lat­est Rea­gan Nation­al Defense Sur­vey. Despite Amer­i­cans elect­ing a pres­i­dent who ran on an “Amer­i­ca First” agen­da that focused on domes­tic issues rang­ing from…