President Trump has shaken up America's global alliances, with policy reversals and moves toward realignments that are being felt around the world.

I'm not aligned with anybody. I'm aligned with the United States of America and for the good of the world.

So how are other world leaders as well as thought leaders making sense of these big changes?

I'm Michelle Martin,

and this is a special bonus episode of Up First from NPR News. A major shock has been President Trump's tilt toward Russia and its war on Ukraine. First of all, he's not an isolationist. He's

a ardent nationalist and much more comfortable with autocratic leaders than with leaders of liberal democracies.

What does that mean for future relations between the U.S. and its democratic allies?

It has so many implications that they're almost hard to think through.

Stay with us. We've got news you need to make sense of it in the special bonus episode of Up First from NPR News.

After years of U.S. policies aimed at isolating Russia, the Trump administration is working

with Russia to try to make a deal to end the war. Critics say Trump

is appeasing Putin, even that Trump has forged a new alliance with Putin. During a heated meeting

in the White House with Ukraine's president, Vladimir Zelensky, Trump says that's not true.

I'm not aligned with Putin. I'm not aligned with anybody. I'm aligned with the United States of America

and for the good of the world.

Europeans and others are worried because what happens in Ukraine could have broader implications.

So what do the shifting alliances mean for America and its role in the world?

Trump is saying, I don't care anymore about alliances. I'm not interested in your opinions.

I'm going to do a deal with

this dictator over your head. That's Ann Applebaum, a staff writer for the Atlantic, talking about

Trump's recent posturing towards Russia. She says Russia is a threat not only to Ukraine, but also to

Europe. And that's a message that is heard not just in every European capital, but in every

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