From attacking Justin Trudeau to trying to extort Ukraine to repeatedly trashing NATO, Donald Trump spent much of his first term in office maligning the United States’ allies and shredding diplomatic norms. Unfortunately for those allies, the former president was reelected to a second term in office on Tuesday—and come January 20, they’ll have to attempt to work with him for four years.
Hence the congratulatory messages that have poured in from around the globe over the last 12 hours. From the UK, Prime Minister Keir Starmer dubbed Trump’s win a “historic election victory” and said that “as the closest of allies, we stand shoulder to shoulder in defence of our shared values of freedom, democracy and enterprise.” From France, President Emmanuel Macron said he was “ready to work together…with respect and ambition.” Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy offered congratulations to Trump on an “impressive election victory” and said he looks forward to “an era of a strong United States of America under President Trump’s decisive leadership.” Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote on X: “Congratulations on history’s greatest comeback! Your historic return to the White House offers a new beginning for America and a powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America.” Compliments also emerged from Germany, Hungary, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey, China, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, India, South Korea, Argentina, and Brazil.
One country that has conspicuously not offered its congratulations on the win? Russia, from which numerous bomb threats targeting battleground states on Tuesday reportedly originated. In a statement, a spokesperson for the Kremlin said Vladimir Putin does not plan to congratulate the president-elect because the US is an “unfriendly country” and the incoming president will be judged on “concrete steps and concrete words.”
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Trump has claimed, more than once, that he’d be able to end the Russia-Ukraine war in a day. Critics have warned that he could effectively force Ukraine to surrender.
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