On one side is a nascent coalition of at least 36 nations with a population over seven times that of the United States, and a combined GDP almost twice that of ours. On the other side, standing increasingly alone, is America. Battle lines are drawn, hostilities have begun.

Turkey is only the latest member of the emerging anti-Trump coalition. It is a member of NATO, its troops are fighting alongside Americans in support of Afghan forces battling the Taliban, and it is home to the Incirlik and Izmir Air Bases, important strategic assets shared by the United States and Turkey. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the country’s autocratic president, is an ally Trump certainly should grapple to his breast with hoops of steel, a phrase the president likely has underscored in his dog-eared copy of Hamlet.