Damage from Trump unilateralism is 'criminal' – ex-US adviser

Transatlantic relationships in jeopardy and president playing on citizens’ fears, warns ex-diplomat William Burns


A former US state department adviser to five previous American presidents says that Donald Trump’s narcissistic unilateralism is doing Vladimir Putin’s work for him by widening the fissure between the US and Europe over climate change, Iran, Brexit and Nato.

The former adviser, William Burns, warned today that the corrosive damage to the transatlantic relationships might never be repaired, and described Trump being uninterested in those alliances at a time when China was “rising’” and Russia “resurging”, as criminal.

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