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Foreign Policy
Red carpet in Anchorage, Kremlin talking points in the peace plan: how Russia's terms became the US position
Trump hosted Putin on US soil in August 2025 with no deal and no ceasefire; by November a 28-point US plan asked Ukraine to give up Donetsk, cap its army and forgo NATO, and leaked calls showed the US envoy coaching the Kremlin.
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Foreign Policy
Tariffs on allies for defending Denmark: how the Greenland crisis and the trade war broke Europe's trust in America
In January 2026 Trump put a 10 percent tariff on eight allies for backing Denmark over Greenland until markets fell; by spring 76 percent of Germans called the US untrustworthy and a Pew median of 85 percent of Europeans disapproved.
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Foreign Policy
'We don't have to be there for NATO': the Munich speech, the 'PATHETIC' chat, and 5,000 troops pulled from Germany
Vance told Europe its main threat was itself, Hegseth called allies 'PATHETIC' free-loaders, Trump said the US 'doesn't have to be there for NATO,' and the Pentagon ordered 5,000 troops out of Germany over a dispute about the Iran war.