Is the US retreating from the world?

The US has left Iraq after two decades and pulled strategic bombers from a key UK base. Coincidence, or evidence of a broader shift toward a lighter global military footprint?

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US troops are leaving Iraq, American bombers are being withdrawn from Britain, and Washington is scaling back its international commitments.

Is Donald Trump simply reshaping US foreign policy, or is America giving up its role as global leader?

DW asks Charles Kupchan of the Council on Foreign Relations and Georgetown University whether this is strategic restraint, a return to isolationism, or the beginning of a more dangerous world.

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