Trump has unleashed chaos by distraction upon the international community. That's no accident
LAURIE KELLMAN
Associated Press
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Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, left, speaks with Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk as they arrive for an EU summit Feb. 3 at Egmont Palace in Brussels.
Geert Vanden Wijngaert, Associated Press
French President Emmanuel Macron, left, speaks with Slovenia's Prime Minister Robert Golob at a round table meeting during an EU summit in Brussels, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
Geert Vanden Wijngaert
A Spanish flag and a Spanish far-right VOX party flag are waved during the far-right Patriots for Europe summit Saturday in Madrid, Spain.
Paul White, Associated Press
FILE - The U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, is pictured Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
Carolyn Kaster
FILE-An Ethiopian woman scoops up portions of wheat to be allocated to each waiting family after it was distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, on Saturday, May 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, file)
LONDON — The Saudis are furious. The Danes are scrambling. Colombia has backed down. Mexico and Canada stand in a purgatory between tariff wars with the U.S. and … not. China has retaliated, launching a trade war between the economic superpowers. The Brits, long proud of their "special relationship" with the United States, are leaning into their tradition of quiet diplomacy.
Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, left, speaks with Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk as they arrive for an EU summit Feb. 3 at Egmont Palace in Brussels.
French President Emmanuel Macron, left, speaks with Slovenia's Prime Minister Robert Golob at a round table meeting during an EU summit in Brussels, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
FILE-An Ethiopian woman scoops up portions of wheat to be allocated to each waiting family after it was distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, on Saturday, May 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, file)