While foreign viewers of Trump’s address most likely agreed that the world would look very different had the United States not fought in World War II, many also felt obliged to remind the president that they think he is destroying the very world order the Allied victory helped create.

Here are three examples:

Trade wars

What Trump said during his speech: “To build on our incredible economic success, one priority is paramount — reversing decades of calamitous trade policies.”

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How the United States helped avoid trade wars post-World War II: After the war, the United States was a driving force behind the creation of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which was established in 1948. Its successor, the World Trade Organization (WTO), was founded in 1995. Both organizations share the same original goal of creating a “strong and prosperous international trading system, thereby contributing to unprecedented global economic growth” and ultimately fostering “peace and stability,” according to the WTO’s mission statement.

The move was in part a response to the infamous “beggar-thy-neighbor” economic policies adopted by the major economies during the Great Depression in the 1930s, which used tariffs to keep out imports and ended up damaging world trade.

Critics say the WTO and the open-markets approach it pursues have resulted in a deterioration of living conditions for some by increasing economic inequality. But the mounting concerns over Brexit — which are partially rooted in the fact that Britain could lose its free-market access to Europe — indicate just how much frictionless trade has contributed to global economic growth over the past few decades.

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How Trump is dismantling it: Trump has shown little enthusiasm for the WTO and other international financial institutions. He has launched a trade dispute with China, threatened to levy tariffs on European products and essentially dismantled a European-U.S. free-trade agreement.

His critics fear that those disputes could still have longer-term repercussions. Whenever trade disagreements arose in the past, the WTO worked to resolve them. Supporters of the WTO argue that Trump has undermined the legitimacy of this process by citing “national security” concerns to justify his tariffs against China. That’s the one case in which the WTO cannot intervene, according to its own rules. Previously, nations had considered resorting to “national security” justifications a no-go, as it could render the WTO mechanisms meaningless if all countries felt comfortable using that rationale.

In the short run, Trump’s strategy could help him win the trade war with China. In the long run, however, it could tear apart the mechanism that kept global trade afloat for decades and were set up by his predecessors for exactly that reason.

Taking into account allies

What Trump said during his speech: “Much work remains to be done, but my relationship with Kim Jong Un is a good one.”

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“… To ensure this corrupt dictatorship never acquires nuclear weapons, I withdrew the United States from the disastrous Iran nuclear deal.”

“… Now, as we work with our allies to destroy the remnants of ISIS, it is time to give our brave warriors in Syria a warm welcome home.”

How the United States took into account its allies after World War II: Two years after the beginning of war, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Britain and Canada created the Five Eyes alliance to work closely on security issues and exchange classified information. In addition to that, the United States helped create NATO after the end of World War II, in 1949.

How Trump is dismantling it: Since Trump has taken office, allies within both defense- and security-related alliances have raised the alarm over Trump’s foreign-policy experiments. His announced withdrawal from Syria was harshly criticized by French President Emmanuel Macron, who has vowed to keep French troops in the country to prevent a resurgence of the Islamic State group. Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal triggered similar condemnations from across Europe, where the decision is viewed as a move toward a possible military escalation. On North Korea, Trump’s bromance with dictator Kim Jong Un was met with confusion in allied capitals around the world, where intelligence agencies agree with their U.S. counterparts that the Kim regime remains a nuclear threat.

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Trump has also rarely missed an opportunity to point out other NATO members’ shortcomings in defense spending and at points even raised doubts over the future of the alliance. So far, he has not escalated those threats, but his remarks have lingered over almost all joint exercises and meetings of NATO.

Immigration

What Trump said during his speech: “Tolerance for illegal immigration is not compassionate — it is cruel.”

How the United States helped build the post-World War II refugee resettlement mechanisms: When the United Nations was founded in 1945, the organization was supposed to represent the world, but with the United States being the biggest financial contributor, in many ways it was also set up to fit U.S. interests. The U.N. Refugee Agency, which was created five years later, distributes asylum seekers that meet its refugee criteria among countries around the world. Ultimately, the mechanisms that help mothers, fathers and their children escape war or disaster rely on the goodwill of U.N. member states.

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How Trump is dismantling it: During his speech, Trump didn’t use the word “refugee” even once. He repeatedly referred to “illegal immigrants,” meaning migrants from Mexico and other countries in the Americas, to make his point that a wall or physical barrier is still needed on the southern border.

But while Trump didn’t mention refugees explicitly, his attacks on prior administrations’ immigration approach has also affected the United States' long leadership in the resettlement of asylum seekers who meet the U.N. refugee criteria. Trump’s ban on entry to the United States by citizens of several majority-Muslim countries set the tone in 2017, even though the policy was later suspended. But the Trump administration has also set a record-low limit for the number of refugees resettled in the United States annually. Those who are excluded remain at risk near war zones around the world.

To right-wing leaders elsewhere in the world who are opposed to higher refugee intakes, Trump’s moves have come as a welcome justification of their own policies.

To those who stick to the U.S.-driven postwar order, the president’s words seemed an open affront.