President Trump has shaken up America's global alliances with policy reversals
and moves toward realignments that are being felt around the world.
I'm not aligned with anybody.
I'm aligned with the United States of America and for the good of the world.
So how are other world leaders as well as thought leaders making sense of these big changes?
I'm Michelle Martin, and this is a special bonus episode of UP first from NPR News.
A major shock has been President Trump's tilt toward Russia and its war on Ukraine.
First of all, he's not an isolationist.
He's an ardent nationalist
and much more comfortable with autocratic leaders than with leaders of liberal democracies.
What does that mean for future relations between the US and its democratic allies?
It has so many implications that they're almost hard to think through.
Stay with us.
We've got news.
You need to make sense of it in this special bonus episode of up first from NPR News.
After years of US Policies aimed at isolating Russia,
the Trump administration is working with Russia to try to make a deal to end the war.
Critics say Trump is appeasing Putin, even that Trump has forged a new alliance with Putin.
During a heated meeting in the White House with Ukraine's President,
Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump says that's not true.