Trump stirs talk of 'new world order' as leaders signal shifting global alliance

US President Donald Trump gives And he takes away Offended by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carneys increasingly assertive posture toward the US Trump revoked an invitation to join his Board of Peace Many Western allies are suspicious of the organisation which is chaired by Trump and was initially formed to focus on maintaining the ceasefire in Israels war with Hamas but has grown into something sceptics fear could rival the United NationsAppearing at the World Economic Forum Trump spoke of imposing tariffs on Switzerland which he ultimately lowered because the countrys leader rubbed me the wrong way during a phone call Before shelving sweeping tariffs on multiple European countries Trump pressed Denmark to say yes to the US push to control Greenland and we will be very appreciative Or you can say no and we will remember he said imperiling the NATO allianceOver his decades in public life Trump has never been one for niceties But even by his standards the tumult of the past week stood out because it crystallised his determination to erase the rulesbased order that has governed US foreign policy and by extension most of the Western world since World War IIThe president and his supporters have dismissed that approach as inefficient overly focused on compromise and unresponsive to the needs of people contending with rapid economic change But in its place Trump is advancing a system that is poorly understood and could prove far less stable driven by the whims of a single often mercurial leader who regularly demonstrates that personal flattery or animus can shape his decisionsReturning to the US from Davos home to the World Economic Forum Republican Sen Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said the phrase she heard over and over was that we are entering this new world order as she described a sense of confusion among alliesIt may be you just had a bad telephone call with the president and now youre going to have tariffs directed at you she told reporters This lack of stability and reliability I think is causing what were traditionally reliable trade partners to be saying to other countries Hey maybe you and I should talk because Im not sure about whats going on with the United StatesThe Trumpcentric approach to governingThe Trumpcentric approach to governing is hardly surprising for someone who accepted his first Republican presidential nomination in 2016 by declaring that I alone can fix the nations problems As he settles into his second term with a far more confident demeanour than his first he has delighted supporters with his tothevictor goesthespoils styleSteve Bannon Trumps former adviser recently told the Atlantic that Trump is pursuing a maximalist strategy and that he must keep going until you meet resistance And we havent met any resistance Bannon saidThats certainly true in Washington where the Republicancontrolled Congress has done little to check Trumps impulses But leaders of other countries who have spent much of Trumps administration trying to find ways to work with him are increasingly vocalCarney is quickly emerging as a leader of a movement for countries to find ways to link up and counter the US Speaking in Davos ahead of Trump Carney said Middle powers must act together because if you are not at the table you are on the menuIn a world of great power rivalry the countries in between have a choice to compete with each other for favour or to combine to create a third path with impact he continued We should not allow the rise of hard powers to blind us to the fact that the power of legitimacy integrity and rules will remain strong if we choose to wield it togetherTrump did not take kindly to those remarks responding with threats in Davos before yanking the Board of Peace invitation Canada lives because of the United States Trump said Remember that Mark the next time you make your statementsSome leaders are pushing backCarney however was unbowed speaking of Canada as an example to a world at sea as he crafted a potential template for other world leaders navigating a new era We can show that another way is possible that the arc of history isnt destined to be warped toward authoritarianism and exclusion he said in a speech before a cabinet retreat in Quebec CityIn the UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer blasted Trump on Friday for insulting and frankly appalling comments in which he expressed doubt that NATO would support the US if requested The president seemingly ignored that the only time Article 5 of NATOs founding treaty which requires all member countries to help another member under threat was invoked was after the 911 attacks on the USReferring to nonUS troops Trump told Fox Business Network You know theyll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan or this or that and they did they stayed a little back a little off the front linesStarmer noting the 457 British personnel who died and those with lifelong injuries said he will never forget their courage their bravery and the sacrifice they made for their country Denmark which Trump has belittled as ungrateful for US protection during World War II had the highest per capita death toll among coalition forces in AfghanistanThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever