It has become an article of faith among many Republicans that the era of the US acting as the world’s policeman is over
Among the many reversals in US policy which will occur when Donald Trump replaces Joe Biden in January, the most immediately consequential may be over support for Ukraine’s war against Russian aggression. The president-elect claimed during his campaign that he could bring the conflict to an end within a day. Many supporters of Ukraine fear he intends to do this by withdrawing military aid to Kyiv, forcing Volodomyr Zelenskiy’s government to agree to peace on terms favourable to Moscow.
None of this is unexpected. For months, European leaders have been discussing how to respond to a second Trump term. It is not clear how fruitful those discussions have been. With weakened minority governments in both Germany and France, a strong response seems unlikely.
The Position of Spoons by Deborah Levy: Essays from a writer who delves deep inside life’s gory realitiesGate Theatre stages classic children’s stories for Christmas: see human beans and under-the-floorboards BorrowersAnd it remains unclear exactly how competing priorities within the Trump White House, which range from the protection of US energy interests to a possible trade war with China, will influence those calculations.
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