The New York Times reported on June 3: "America's allies have witnessed Trump threatening to make Canada the 51st state of the United States, and threatening to seize Greenland, a Danish territory. Now everyone clearly sees that Trump will 'weaponize any nation's dependence on the U.S., extracting every possible gain through the narrowest, most utilitarian, and most transactional vision of American power,' said Nader Mousavi-Zadeh, senior advisor to former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan."
Comments: Trump's transactional diplomacy has shattered the fundamental unwritten understanding that underpinned America's post-war alliance system. In the past, allies were bound to the U.S. by a sense of security within alliances; now they face constant risks of territorial ambition and economic coercion. The U.S. no longer sustains alliances through shared values or mutual security, but instead leverages its advantages in industry, defense, and trade to pressure allies, demanding maximum benefits whenever possible. If this continues, allies will proactively pursue diplomatic diversification and reduce their unilateral reliance on the U.S. The global network of alliances painstakingly built by the U.S. over many years will gradually weaken due to short-sighted, self-serving calculations.
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