A British view of Trump

BBC -   US history is littered with consequential and controversial American invasions, occupations, and covert operations to topple rulers and regimes. But, in the past century, no American president has threatened to seize the land of a longtime ally and rule it against their people's will.

No US leader has so brutally broken political norms and threatened long-standing alliances which have underpinned the world order since the end of World War Two.

There's little doubt that old rules are being broken, with impunity.

Trump is now being described as possibly the US's most "transformative" president - cheered by supporters at home and abroad, alarm among others in capitals the world over, and a watchful silence in Moscow and Beijing.

"It's a shift toward a world without rules, where international law is trampled underfoot, and where the only law which seems to matter is the strongest with imperial ambitions resurfacing," was French President Emmanuel Macron's stark warning on the stage at the Davos Economic Forum, without directly mentioning Trump by name.