Trump’s Critics From Bogota to the Arctic Buckle Under US Power

From South America to the Arctic, the world is getting a crash course in the Trump doctrine.

It’s immediate, it’s retaliatory, it’s blunt. And it’s leaving countries oceans apart disoriented, rethinking diplomatic norms and wondering whether they’re on their own when fighting the American juggernaut.

That is partly by design — whether it’s deal-making or diplomacy, Donald Trump’s strategy has always been to keep people guessing — a mix of surprise and force that’s already roiling markets entering week two of his second term as US president. The onslaught against Colombia for refusing flights of deportees from the US ...