Banff, Alberta: Nine months into his term, President Donald Trump’s approach to allies, adversaries and competitors around the world has proved a strange mix of successes and increasingly frequent and erratic eruptions, whether he is dealing with Canada or China, Venezuela or the Middle East, or the war for control of Ukraine.

Without question, Trump has enjoyed some substantial second-term foreign policy victories. European allies are on track to spend far more for their own defence than they imagined a year ago, something several presidents have demanded but Trump forced.

He has intervened to help defuse a number of long-running regional conflicts, even if some of his claimed successes prove temporary. His biggest achievement to date, winning the freedom of the 20 living hostages held

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