Global turmoil Trump stirred threatens his reelection chances

President Donald Trump is showing what happens when the United States abandons its decades-long role as a guarantor of stability and instead chooses to act as an agent of global disruption.

A series of economic and political shocks are fomenting disorder across the planet and straining an international political system that Trump deliberately set out to undermine.

Stock markets are tumbling as warning signs flash of a global recession exacerbated by fears deepened by the US-China trade war.

Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan are locked in a dangerous new standoff.

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