"Five hundred days of winning on the world stage" was the title of the e-mail the White House sent out on June 7.
The United States has returned to leadership on the international stage while prioritising its interests, it said. And it quoted President Donald Trump as saying: "We know that weakness is the surest path to conflict, and unmatched power is the surest means of our defence."
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