U.S. President Donald Trump has taken a wrecking ball to multilateralism. From Gaza to Greenland, Caracas to Canada, his muscular territorial hustle appears to be redrawing the rules of power unilaterally.

It’s not as if the United States has ever been bashful about asserting its power without deference to global bodies like the United Nations. But Trump’s interventions lack even the moral fig-leaf that his American predecessors routinely used to cover Washington’s naked pursuit of national interest. Legitimacy, it appeared, still mattered to them. That nicety clearly does not matter to Trump.

Trump’s modus operandi is now well-known. Yet a U.S.-led, Trump-chaired Gaza “Board of Peace" that sidelines traditional multilateralism,........

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