Donald Trump has vowed to put “America first,” but who comes second, and third, and 193rd? Barack Obama may have been more willing than his predecessors to “question why America’s enemies are its enemies, or why some of its friends are its friends,” as Jeffrey Goldberg once wrote in The Atlantic, but Trump has thrown U.S. allies and adversaries into a state of flux unseen in decades. We now live in a world where European Union officials talk of the grave threat posed by the American president, who in turn doggedly defends the leader of Russia. It’s a world in …read more
Source: The Atlantic