Even before taking office, Trump shaking up global order

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : But Trump has quickly made clear that he is still capable of jaw-dropping statements, an approach that has rattled allies, while pleasing his supporters, who see this is as a way to force results.
46% : But Trump appointed a respected retired lieutenant general, Keith Kellogg, as an envoy on Ukraine, and Waltz initially has spoken of strengthening Ukraine to give it a better negotiating position.
44% : Trump has also taunted NATO ally and long-friendly neighbor Canada, suggesting it should become a 51st state of the United States or face tariffs -- his favorite tool to pressure both friends and foes.
41% : "Pointing to Chinese companies' influence in the Panama Canal and Russian exertion of power in the warming Arctic, Waltz said that Trump "is always going to leave all options on the table" in a way "unlike, frankly, his predecessor.
39% : As president-elect, Trump has refused to rule out the idea of military force to seize Greenland -- an autonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark -- as well as the Panama Canal, the vital waterway which the United States handed over 25 years ago.
39% : Asked in a recent interview with ABC News if Trump was serious in his threats, Mike Waltz, his incoming national security advisor, said: "What he's very serious about is the threats that we're facing.
34% : "- After 'America is Back' -Outgoing President Joe Biden had declared that "America is Back" when he beat Trump in 2020 -- and made no apologies for his stance in a valedictory address Monday at the State Department, insisting the United States was now stronger against its competitors.
32% : As only the second former president elected to a non-consecutive term, Trump is at least a known quantity to world leaders.
32% : Waltz said that Trump had already succeeded since his election of reviving prospects for diplomacy in a conflict that "had bogged down to a World War I-style meat grinder of people and resources with World War III consequences.
30% : Trump during his campaign had boasted that he could end the Ukraine war in a day, potentially by leveraging US aid to force Kyiv -- which has received billions of dollars in weapons under Biden -- into territorial concessions to Russia.
21% : "Robert Benson, a senior policy analyst at the left-leaning Center for American Progress, said that Trump was correct "to be identifying the threat posed by a revanchist Russia and by an expansionist China.

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