Trump is reshaping U.S. alliances.
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The world is taking notice
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Trump's threats, jabs and actions are causing turbulence in the global order
U.S. President Donald Trump’s approach to allies and trading partners is reverberating well beyond North America.
At the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, Trump delivered a speech packed with sweeping claims and warnings.
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He touted America’s power and reiterated that "America first" remains central to his agenda, while singling out countries including Iran and threatening to “annihilate” it if it refused to make a deal with the U.S.
Trump did not mention Canada in his speech.
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But just a day earlier, he threatened to shift U.S. potash purchases to Belarus before appearing to soften his stance the following day.
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He also struck a deal with Denmark and Greenland to expand U.S. military presence in the Arctic territory, after months of threatening to take it by force.
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As Trump forges his own brand of diplomacy, Washington correspondents Katie Simpson, Willy Lowry and Paul Hunter ask: Who are Trump's allies anymore?
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And does he even care?
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We've included some highlights below, edited for length and clarity.
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I'm not going to open the Canada bucket, but the first thing I thought about when the Greenland news broke last week was, what does this mean for Canada?
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To explore the Canada bucket just a little bit more there … there was no mention of Canada in this [UN] speech, and I know that [for] the Canadian delegation that was in New York, there is always concern that Donald Trump is going to use this opportunity to make Canada a punching bag, as he often does in his public events.
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But if we're going to get into Trump reshaping his global alliances — I think one thing this week [is] Trump's unexpected post on social media, where he said that he's looking to get away from purchasing Canadian potash and looking to cut a deal with Belarus to purchase their potash instead at a lower price.
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It illustrates how in pursuit of his America First agenda, Donald Trump is willing to cast traditional allies aside in pursuit of what he sees as ways to have a victory.
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Belarus, of course, is an ally of Russia, helping Vladimir Putin launch the unjustified invasion and war in Ukraine.
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[President] Alexander Lukashenko [is] described as the last dictator of Europe, and this is the man that Donald Trump is looking to cozy up to.
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It’s important to underline there are no U.S. tariffs on Canadian potash going into the U.S. right now.
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On the potash from Belarus, it has to be transited through Russia to get out.
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First of all, they don't have nearly as much as Saskatchewan does.
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It makes no sense logistically.
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And [Belarus] don't have enough, so it gets back to Trump just trolling.
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Is he just flipping the bird at Canada as a tactic in getting under the skin of Carney or whatever it is.
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You're going to get trolled, you're gonna get bullied.
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Trump's got a big stick to wave and he's not afraid to wave it, and the rest of the world is feeling that, and that is the relationship that the U.S. has created, is continuing to create, with the rest of the world, and the rest of the world is realizing it.
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I remember the first time I travelled with former secretary of state Antony Blinken to the Munich Security Conference, and it was really amazing watching essentially every country in the world fight for his time trying to get onto the U.S. delegations … to speak with U.S. officials.
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That remains true today, but that cachet is waning.
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The star is a lot dimmer than it once was, and most of it is because of the way Trump has alienated so many of America's traditional allies.
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Prime Minister Carney coined it ‘a rupture,’ and I think a lot of the world didn't want to believe that, but now they've come to see that.
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