Trump, Long Erratic on the World Stage, Reaches a New Level

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Nine months into his term, President Trump’s approach to allies, adversaries and competitors around the world has proved a strange mix of successes and increasingly frequent and erratic eruptions, whether he is dealing with Canada or China, Venezuela or the Middle East, or the war for control of Ukraine. Without question, Mr. Trump has enjoyed some substantial second-term foreign policy victories. European allies are now on track to spend far more for their own defense than they imagined a year ago, something several presidents have demanded but Mr. Trump forced. He has intervened to help defuse a number of long-running...