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John Simpson: 2025 could be year for the history books as Trump shreds global norms

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Donald Trump has up-ended America 's policy of putting American interests first , way before everything else.

The more pressure that is piled on President Zelensky , the quicker a peace deal will come, says Simon Tisdall .

Trump has committed himself to stopping the Ukraine war by Easter , he says.

But it's made far more difficult by Trump 's own personality.

Some European diplomats are advising their governments that this grand monarchical period in Donald Trump's presidency won't last.

Trump currently has control of a pliant Congress and a conservative Supreme Court but in only 20 months' time there will be mid-term elections in the US .

There are signs that inflation is starting to rise in America , and enough people may well be affected badly by the upheavals to want to punish Trump 's Republicans .