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It's very possible that the incoming administration will trigger Iran to reconsider a large-scale retaliation
Former Israeli intelligence officer and regional analyst Avi Melamed said
We can do training and other support but the barrel of the gun is going to be European... and we are not paying for it
one source is quoted as sayingWatch for Taiwan on the defence side to try and start engaging them on a big arms package - to do something significant, very large,
Rupert Hammond-Chambers, president of the US-Taiwan Business Council saidA second Trump Presidency will cause concern in the region about disruption flowing from intensification of the ''America first'' principle in US trade policy
RUSI's Shetler-Jones addedThe immediate crisis within Europe will be how to continue diplomatic, military and humanitarian support to Ukraine without the US
Ed Arnold, Senior Research Fellow for European Security at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) think tank, added
Donald Trump will be president again, and that means by the end of the year, pro-peace political forces will be in the majority in the West."
Just days before the U.S. election, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban made a bold prediction on state radio
There is clearly that sort of authoritarian-minded chemistry,
between them ... said Nigel Gould-Davies of the International Institute of Strategic Studies in LondonYou know you can count on Argentina to carry out your task, ... Now, Make America Great Again."
Milei's caption read, followed by
What is Trump going to do in the next four years?”
DONALD Trump is returning to the White House and some of the more clueless people are asking the question
Trump’s relationship with Putin is unpredictable. While Trump might want to negotiate a peace deal, it’s unclear if that would align with Putin’s aims,
he said, highlighting the potential for a dramatic breakdown in relations if Putin miscalculates Trump’s intentionsTrump is a very unpredictable individual when it comes to world affairs,
he saidOther global actors, especially North Korea, will likely be cautious about how they engage with Trump, knowing that he’s an unpredictable force in international relations,
he saidThe rules-based world order and the preservation of US domestic law as well as international laws — we see that has already been broken and undermined,
said Okail
Trump creates an opportunity for those who want to take a wrecking ball to the multilateral order.”
Vinjamuri at Chatham House saidHowever, this is a very narrow view of how [much] these leaders are actually in control of all the people [and groups] operating in the Middle East,
Okail explainedI will have that settled prior to taking the White House as president-elect,
Trump said at an event in JuneWe have to take Trump at face value.”
According to Leslie Vinjamuri, the director of the US and Americas programme at the think tank Chatham House in LondonWhile Trump in the first term was sort of able to be swayed a little bit by his relationship at times with [Chinese President] Xi Jinping, we don’t really know what would happen now,
he also told Al JazeeraThere are real concerns that Trump might push them harder on tariffs, on China, and be a very disruptive force to the G7, which many Europeans feel has been a very positive venue for collaborating, cooperating on economic and security issues,
she said, referencing the Group of Seven, a forum for some of the world’s largest economiesWhen I was president, Iran was in total check. They were starved for cash, fully contained, and desperate to make a deal,
he said in a campaign statement in early October