Well this is about to get awkward
http://http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/12/trump-putin-alliance-sparks-diplomatic-crisis/
Britain is facing a diplomatic crisis with the US over Donald Trump’s plans to forge an alliance with Vladimir Putin and bolster the Syrian regime.
In a significant foreign policy split, officials admitted that Britain will have some “very difficult” conversations with the President-elect in coming months over his approach to Russia.
Looks like Trump might not go back on this pledge after all. Putting aside the fact that it's not quite as simple as smashing Da'esh - imagine breaking a piece of glass on a shag pile carpet; you know you haven't actually got rid of the glass, just put splinters everywhere and you can't see them til you stand on them - are we seeing UK and other western politicians having their bluff called by a businessman who might just think that years of going round in circles without any substantive progress amounts to spin over substance - or a poor return on investment?
Whatever your views on his personal qualities, I suspect we will find him to be pragmatic as far as his own interests are concerned and results oriented. Whether those interests and results fit in with the Liberal London elite's view of the world is another matter. But they aren't the ones holding the big stick.