Quick guide The Observer Show Hide The Observer is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper, founded in 1791. Of those three pillars of what it is, perhaps, too grand to dub a Trump doctrine in the Middle East, Trump has kicked one away and weakened the other two. The result has been an act of hallucinatory statecraft, divorced from Trump’s foreign policy ambitions, as dangerously one-sided and counterproductive as it was unilateral. While May has been careful and correct since Trump’s speech in stating Britain’s opposition to his move, it is not enough. British foreign policy, indeed the foreign policy of the European Union, needs to articulate an alternative vision to the destructive America of Trump, reclaiming the high ground of international consensus, fairness and the rule of international law and rejecting any normalisation of his acts.

Source: The Guardian December 10, 2017 00:00 UTC