Trump not interested in alliances

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00:00So, what do you think it is that's motivating President Donald Trump here?

00:05Well, President Trump and his Make America First agenda is clearly geared towards recoupling

00:14from Europe.

00:16I think he sees himself par to par with the big players in Moscow and in Beijing.

00:23He certainly has no interest to really keep the traditional alliances and partnerships

00:31that the United States has built over the past 70 plus years.

00:36He wants to, I think, use the relationships that he is about to reset with President Putin

00:45in order to make gains, profitable, economic, financial, personal gains, but also to establish

00:54the United States as an actor with, or rather a country, a global power, with whom people

01:03must reckon, but not in a predictable way.

01:06He uses on purpose this shock and awe, disruptive strategy, makes everybody guessing, puts everybody

01:13under time pressure, threatens allies left and right hand.

01:17So, this, I think, is all part of his strategy.