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\u201cThe world has an opportunity now to unite around the issue that is affecting us all, and that\u2019s the cost of living,\u201d Burnham said during a visit to the Commonwealth summit in Antigua. \u201cBut I can\u2019t get people\u2019s cost of living pressures down until the conflict in the Middle East is resolved.\u201d<\/p>\n
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That and \u201cthe conflict in Ukraine started by Russia. These are the things we have to focus on now.\u201d<\/p>\n
But others in Europe cautioned that, with Trump in power for two more years, there would be no quick change to American foreign policy, which has strained defence, economic and diplomatic alliances. The president has berated European leaders over everything from immigration to wind farms, roiled their economies with tariffs, threatened to pull the U.S. out of NATO and expressed a desire to take over Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark.<\/p>\n
Austrian Foreign Minister Beate Meinl-Reisinger said that \u201cindependently of the election outcome, our security and prosperity in Austria and Europe must not depend on how people in Kansas or Iowa vote. That\u2019s why we are strengthening our own defence capability and our own competitiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n
Laurel Rapp, director of the U.S. and North America program at the Chatham House think tank, said there won\u2019t be \u201ca \u2018we\u2019re back\u2019 moment in the U.S. relationship with Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t expect this will significantly change the administration\u2019s approach to Europe,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a very transactional one, one that has deep skepticism about the value Europe can offer the U.S. in terms of a defence relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The United States\u2019 immediate neighbors reserved judgment on whether the Republican defeat would smooth rocky relations with Washington.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe must wait and see,\u201d said Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.<\/p>\n
Canadian Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said it\u2019s not clear whether the election result will strengthen Ottawa\u2019s hand in talks aimed at cooling a bitter trade war.<\/p>\n
\u201cI guess we\u2019ll see in a few weeks,\u201d when the new Congress takes over in January, he said.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI was doing cartwheels down the street,\u201d Ford said.<\/p>\n
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Last month, even as he fired insults at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Trump waived sanctions on Russia even though Congress had overwhelmingly approved the measures as part of legislation aimed at supporting Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday that Russia hoped Trump \u201cwill continue his peacemaking efforts\u201d regardless of the election outcome.<\/p>\n
A prominent German lawmaker urged Republicans to see the result in part as voters\u2019 verdict on Trump\u2019s \u201cwrong foreign policy.\u201d<\/p>\n
J\u00fcrgen Hardt, a foreign policy spokesperson for the parliamentary group of Chancellor Friedrich Merz\u2019s center-right bloc, told ARD television he hopes that Trump will \u201cexercise more reason\u201d on foreign affairs.<\/p>\n
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who has been a target of Trump\u2019s baseless claims that his government discriminates against the country\u2019s white minority, said the Democrats taking control of both houses of Congress would \u201cintroduce a new era in world relations.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Rapp, from Chatham House, said that Congress will have an easier time constraining Trump domestically than in foreign policy.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn a lot of the foreign policy tools in his tool kit, Trump retains a lot of latitude to use them at his will,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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