Banff, Alberta: Nine months into his term, President Donald Trump’s approach to allies, adversaries and competitors around the world has proved a strange mix of successes and increasingly frequent and erratic eruptions, whether he is dealing with Canada or China, Venezuela or the Middle East, or the war for control of Ukraine.

Without question, Trump has enjoyed some substantial second-term foreign policy victories. European allies are on track to spend far more for their own defence than they imagined a year ago, something several presidents have demanded but Trump forced.

Donald Trump’s approach to foreign relations sometimes pays off and sometimes does not. Credit: AP

He has intervened to help defuse a number of long-running regional conflicts, even if some of his claimed succes

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