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He was driving toward a sort of America First isolationism and shoring up the boundaries of the U.S., whether literal borders or conceptual boundaries of American identity.

The first stage reportedly includes the seizure of additional areas of Gaza and the expansion of the Israeli-designated "buffer zone" running along the territory's borders with Israel and Egypt, with the aim of giving Israel additional leverage in negotiations with Hamas on a new ceasefire and hostage release deal.

Almost as many French citizens, having seen the way Trump and his vice president, JD Vance, manhandled Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office, are afraid that Russia’s war against Ukraine will spill over beyond Ukraine’s borders, perhaps even into France itself.

Poland, which shares borders with both Russia and Ukraine, says it will spend almost 5% of GDP on defence this year, the highest in Nato.

Israel views Syria’s fledgling government as a jihadist threat on its borders that it must counter, both to protect itself and its neighbor’s Druze minority.