The president’s explosive Oval Office encounter reflected his determination to put aside alliances and commitments to principles in favor of raw great power negotiations.

Fredagens havererade möte mellan Trump och Zelenskyj bådar illa. Det är inte bara Ukraina som förlorat USA:s vänskap. Det har hela Europa.

It’s been five years, and more than 20 million deaths globally. The first official case was in December 2019. The World Health Organization designated Covid-19 a public health emergency at the end of January 2020, the U.S. government declared it a national emergency on March 13, and every single state ordered or recommended schools close at some point between March 16 and March 27. What followed was trauma: years of mass mortality, inescapable infection and deep disruption, even to the lives of the relatively safe.

When it comes to the war in Ukraine, President Trump finds common cause with the world’s outlier states and stands against traditional U.S. allies like Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Japan and Italy.

Det felles verdigrunnlaget, limet som har holdt Vesten sammen, er nå borte.

Han forutså Russlands fullskala-invasjon av Ukraina før den skjedde. Nå advarer Timothy Snyder om hva som står på spill hvis Vesten svikter Ukraina.

And the betrayal by the U.S.

At a meeting at the White House, President Trump declined to call President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia a dictator while President Emmanuel Macron of France stated flatly that “the aggressor is Russia.”