has interests; the presidents come and go – the interests remain’. After all, previous presidents also felt it was in the USA’s interests to curtail North Korea’s nuclear expansion, to persuade NATO countries to spend more on defence and to prevent the rise of one overly dominant power on the European continent. Trump has followed all these policies but gone about them in a different way, using language that many people see as undiplomatic. The moral stature of the USA as the leader of the free world, and indeed the presidency, may have been damaged but that is more down to the ugly
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