As Thursday’s resignation of widely-respected US Secretary of Defense James Mattis sends shockwaves throughout the global military community, government officials and political experts from around the world are voicing concern about an increasingly reckless commander-in-chief.
Even measured against the standards of US President Donald Trump’s first two years, it has been a turbulent week in DC, as lawmakers, pundits and experts scramble to find an underlying pattern to the consistently off-the-cuff foreign policy moves made by the current White House.