A look ahead to 2025 and the possibilities of a new foreign policy, a Trumpian foreign policy.

I admit that I am not a big fan of most of the polies of Trump when it comes to foreign policy…..but I do likje that he wants to extricatre the US from Ukraine…..I agree with the idea just not sure about the action.

Foreign policy. Trump declined to go into specifics on foreign policy, but he said the Middle East is “going to get solved.” Asked if he trusts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump said, “I don’t trust anybody.” He described the war in Ukraine as less complicated, but harder to “solve” than the Middle East. “I disagree very vehemently with sending missiles hundreds of miles into Russia,” he said.

Beyond that let’s look at some his other policies…..

Nixon—and in the process, reminisce about a conservative internationalist, a hawk with a heart of gold, at a time when right-wing ideas about foreign policy have gotten weirder and dumber and more inchoate. The base no longer cares for the bomb-droppers. But they ran the show in the first Trump term, and will in the second, if only because they are the only ones who can.

The Grand Strategy Summit is a reflection of this absurd configuration. Trump has, for the entirety of his political career, eviscerated the foreign policy establishment, arguing that it is both too eager to start wars and too timid once it has. But beyond a relatively simple heuristic—Trump admires strongmen and scorns long-standing alliances with democratic allies—there is no Trump doctrine.

Eager to cast himself as a modern-day isolationist, Trump was nevertheless a reckless and trigger-happy president, who very nearly started wars with both Iran and North Korea. Trump and much of his base have rejected the neoconservative framework that has dominated Republican foreign policy for decades. But instead of shunning the hawks, he empowered them, placing men like O’Brien and his predecessor John Bolton in positions of high authority.

What is the new Republican Grand Strategy? America faced an “Axis of Authoritarianism,” O’Brien said: Moscow, Beijing, Tehran, Pyongyang. “Four powers. They’ve got internal lines of communication between them.” It’s unclear what he means by this. “Internal lines of communication” is a very Strategy term, but you would typically hear it in relation to the movement of troops around a field. Here, he seems to mean that all four countries are in Asia.

https://newrepublic.com/article/186299/brainless-ideas-guiding-trumps-foreign-policy

I still do not see much thought put into foreign policy other than platitudes about our entanglements in organizations.

Time will tell if his decisions will have a lasting effect…..whether good or bad….

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