{"id":617,"date":"2025-03-12T21:02:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T21:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2025\/03\/12\/power-money-territory-how-trump-shook-the-world-in-50-days-the-new-york-times\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T21:02:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T21:02:36","slug":"power-money-territory-how-trump-shook-the-world-in-50-days-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2025\/03\/12\/power-money-territory-how-trump-shook-the-world-in-50-days-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Power, Money, Territory: How Trump Shook the World in 50 Days &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"site-content\">\n<article id=\"story\">\n<div aria-live=\"polite\">\n<p>You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"fullBleedHeaderContent\">\n<header>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\">\n<div data-testid=\"imageContainer-children-Image\"><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 3dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 288dpi)\" ><source media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 2dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 192dpi)\" ><source media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 1dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 96dpi)\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A reflection of President Trump\u2019s face on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office seen next to his hands crossed on the desk.\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/11\/multimedia\/11dc-trump-power-01-qbpj\/11dc-trump-power-01-qbpj-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&#038;auto=webp&#038;disable=upscale\"   decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"719\"><\/picture>\n<div>\n<p>News Analysis<\/p>\n<p>The system America took 80 years to assemble proved surprisingly fragile in the face of Trump\u2019s assault, a revolution in how the country exercises power across the globe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-ImageCaption\"><span><span>Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Doug Mills\/The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>News Analysis<\/p>\n<p><h2 id=\"link-2b2b8e2b\" data-testid=\"headline\">Power, Money, Territory: How Trump Shook the World in 50 Days<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>The system America took 80 years to assemble proved surprisingly fragile in the face of Trump\u2019s assault, a revolution in how the country exercises power across the globe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\"><span><\/span><span><span>Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span>Doug Mills\/The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><span>By <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/david-e-sanger\" itemprop=\"name\">David E. Sanger<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>David E. Sanger has covered six American presidencies and writes often on the revival of superpower competition, the subject of his latest book.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><time datetime=\"2025-03-12T15:10:40-04:00\"><span>Published March 11, 2025<\/span><span>Updated March 12, 2025, <span>3:10 p.m. ET<\/span><\/span><\/time><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section name=\"articleBody\">\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<p>In a span of only 50 days, President Trump has done more than any of his modern predecessors to hollow out the foundations of an international system that the United States painstakingly erected in the 80 years since it emerged victorious from World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Without formally declaring a reversal of course or offering a strategic rationale, he has pushed the United States to switch sides in the Ukraine war, abandoning all talk about helping a nascent, flawed democracy defend its borders against a larger invader. He did not hesitate when he ordered the United States to vote with Russia and North Korea \u2014 and against virtually all of America\u2019s traditional allies \u2014 to defeat a U.N. resolution that identified Moscow as the aggressor. His threats to take control of the Panama Canal, Greenland, Gaza and, most incredibly, Canada, sound predatory, including his claim Tuesday that the border with America\u2019s northern ally is an \u201cartificial line of separation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He cut Ukraine off from arms and even American commercial satellite imagery, partly out of pique over his blowup in the Oval Office with President Volodymyr Zelensky, but largely because the Ukrainian president insists on a guarantee that the West would come to his country\u2019s aid if Russia rebuilds and reinvades.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump has imposed tariffs on his allies after describing them as leeches on the American economy. And he has so damaged trust among the NATO allies that France is discussing extending its country\u2019s small nuclear umbrella over Europe, and Poland is thinking of building its own atomic weapon. Both fear the United States can no longer be counted on to act as the alliance\u2019s ultimate defender, a core role it created for itself when the NATO treaty was written.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<p>No one knows how successful Mr. Trump will be in ripping asunder what every American president since Harry Truman has built \u2014 an era of institution-building that Mr. Truman\u2019s secretary of state memorialized in a book entitled \u201cPresent At the Creation.\u201d To live in Washington these days is to feel as if one is present at the destruction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"ImageBlock-3\">\n<figure aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\">\n<div data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-figure\">\n<p><span>Image<\/span><\/p>\n<picture><source media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 3dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 288dpi)\" ><source media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 2dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 192dpi)\" ><source media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 1dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 96dpi)\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A line of cargo trucks in front of a mountain.\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/11\/multimedia\/11dc-trump-power-02-qbpj\/11dc-trump-power-02-qbpj-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&#038;auto=webp&#038;disable=upscale\"   uri=\"nyt:\/\/image\/feee22d3-d580-5ff6-a0a2-d385b201be99\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"><\/picture><\/div><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\"><span>Cargo trucks waiting to enter Mexico near a border crossing in San Diego last month. Mr. Trump has imposed tariffs on his allies after describing them as leeches on the American economy.<\/span><span><span>Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Ariana Drehsler for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"Optimistic-4\">\n<div id=\"optimistic-truncator-a11y\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<hr>\n<p>Thank you for your patience while we verify access. 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