New York: In just a few chaotic hours, Donald Trump gave the international community the one-finger salute, and then embraced it with a dramatic shift on the war in Ukraine and a commitment to backing Europe against Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

It is another reminder that Trump’s exotic and outrageous statements always have to be measured against his actual decisions, and those of his vast administration.

The day began with a full-throated rejection of globalism as the world’s most powerful leader railed against immigration, climate change and multilateral co-operation, instead emphasising the value of sovereignty and self-determination.

‘I look at London where you have a terrible mayor’

Indeed, Trump’s address to the United Nations was heavily sceptical of multiculturalism. What made the

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