President Donald Trump is laying waste to the United States’ long-standing system of alliances. By extorting old friends for short-term gain, threatening to annex allied territory, and applying tariffs indiscriminately, he has squandered decades of cooperation that has served U.S. interests worldwide. When Trump eventually leaves office, the next president will have to decide whether to try to restore these ties. If that successor is a Democrat, the instinct may be to revive the alliance framework that existed during the Cold War. But that would be the wrong approach.
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