But experts say that it has become clear during Trump’s second term in office that he has not given much heed to legal standards, particularly international law. That has been seen in both the U.S. abduction of former Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro in January and also Trump’s threats at one point to take Greenland, potentially by force, from NATO ally Denmark.

On the issue of legality, Alex Vatanka, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, told Newsweek in a phone interview on Friday: “I think this president is not going to be bothered too much by that.”