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Trump’s Lack of Global Leadership Will Be Exploited, Ex-NATO Chief Says

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  • Former NATO head says U.S. neglecting ‘global policeman’ role
  • International power vacuum will be exploited by ‘bad guys’

U.S. President Donald Trump has made the world a more dangerous place and his lack of global leadership will be exploited by the likes of Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping, according to former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Trump is a “fully fledged American isolationist” who has disrupted the international order fostered by the U.S. and its allies after World War Two, Rasmussen said in an interview with Bloomberg Television in Berlin on Wednesday.