[[President Donald J. Trump]]'s radical [[foreign policy]] moves stunned observers. President Trump openly dismissed [[Ukraine]], reducing it to a "burden" that [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] should no longer carry. For Trump, [[Western Europe]] is a [[parasite]] living off American largesse. His [[rhetoric]], infused with anti-[[elitism|elitist]] [[populism]], turned the usual [[Western alliance|Western]] mantras of [[democracy]] and [[human rights]] against the very [[nation]]s that long championed them. | [[President Donald J. Trump]]'s radical [[foreign policy]] moves stunned observers. President Trump openly dismissed [[Ukraine]], reducing it to a "burden" that [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] should no longer carry. For Trump, [[Western Europe]] is a [[parasite]] living off American largesse. His [[rhetoric]], infused with anti-[[elitism|elitist]] [[populism]], turned the usual [[Western alliance|Western]] mantras of [[democracy]] and [[human rights]] against the very [[nation]]s that long championed them. |