Richard Haass: Trump Turned United States Into Unilateral Country

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HAASS: “President's announcements on tariffs, this sort of thing, that the United States, you know, whether you want to call that America first, but I actually think this turns out this president's not isolationist, but we are unilateralist on virtually every issue, you know, whether it's getting out of the Paris climate thing or getting out of the World Health Organization, the unilateral tariffs, moving back from our commitments in Europe. He won't make certain commitments about Taiwan. What we have essentially done is gone from being a predictable great power there with our allies, deterring our foes to now being an unpredictable power, much more essentially listening to ourselves and keeping the rest of the world uncertain. And I think what you're beginning to see is American allies adjust to a world in which the United States, after 80 years, is now playing a fundamentally different role.”