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U.S. retrenchment

The United States' perceived withdrawal from international engagements and its impact on European defense.

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Jan 19, 2026

Which Trump-brokered agreements have gone on to be ratified or implemented by domestic legislatures?

Donald Trump’s most concretely “brokered” international agreement that was later ratified and implemented by domestic legislatures is the USMCA, the renegotiation of NAFTA, which became law in all thr...

Jan 17, 2026

international agreements trump has cancelled

President Trump ordered the United States to withdraw from or suspend participation in a sweeping set of international organizations and treaties — a list his White House and State Department say tota...