In foreign policy, as in life, trust is a precious commodity – easy to lose, hard to restore

US is eroding the trust it built in decades

Freezing foreign aid, talk about tariffs, annexing Canada, Greenland, seizing the Panama Canal, overtaking Gaza, or forcing Ukraine to surrender – whether or not these ideas are acted upon – damages one of the most precious commodities in foreign policy: trust. As in life, without trust you can build very little. You may get something by force, manipula…