Subject: Re: war with Denmark or Panama??

His supporters and his critics will (inevitably) view the results differently. Critics, like myself, view what Trump is doing as burning decades of accumulated American investments in building up bilateral alliances with foreign partners (like Canada or the EU) in exchange for some short term gains. We're much stronger than any of our allies, so there's always some near-term benefit to our being willing to flex our muscles and rattle our sabers against them, and not just our geopolitical adversaries (especially since they don't really have many sabers to speak of). But the downside to that is that those allies then stop regarding the U.S. as a dependable or reliable partner,they start treating us that way and building up their own sabers and muscles, and we find ourselves in a world with fewer reliable friends and fewer countries that really need us.

This. I agree with you.