Ex-UK defense minister: Trump shifts US role in West

Trump is reshaping the US’s relationship with the West, challenging its leadership position, former UK Defense Minister Tobias Ellwood says.  #Trump

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00:00Okay, so if you've got two messages already we've agreed on being aimed at America, one is

00:05don't lift the sanctions, the other is Russia isn't serious. Who's going to convey those

00:11messages to President Trump? I mean, and how are those messages going to be conveyed to President

00:15Trump? Clearly all this would be easier if America and Europe were on the same page,

00:20but there's a big geopolitical question here. That Donald Trump is reinterpreting his relationship

00:26with the West, is changing this attitude that America's had for decades, that they lead the

00:32West, that they have some sort of duty to uphold the international rules-based order. That's now

00:37all gone. Everything is transactional with friend and foe, and we need to explain to the American

00:43President, indeed to the American people, how dangerous that is. This tariff's being talked

00:47about today, that would actually impact and hurt America. It's better that we actually work

00:53together. The bigger challenge this century is actually not Russia, it's China, and surely we

00:58can help America deal with that geopolitical tussle that's going to take place, if we're

01:03not distracted by potential growing conflict with Russia.