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By Flavia Krause-Jackson and Sanne Wass

January 27, 2025 at 10:33 AM EST

From South America to the Arctic, the world is getting a crash course in the Trump doctrine.

It’s immediate, it’s retaliatory, it’s blunt. And it’s leaving countries oceans apart disoriented, rethinking diplomatic norms and wondering whether they’re on their own when fighting the American juggernaut.