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….
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
The war in Ukraine is “complicated” now? He promised he would stop the war in Ukraine within 24 hours of being elected, or has everyone forgotten that?
I don’t know why anyone is bewildered by the claim that Moscow, Beijing, Tehran and Pyongyang have lines of communication between them because it’s bloody obvious that they do. NK has been sending material and even troops to Russia, Iran has been sending weapons to Russia. While China doesn’t seem to have been aiding Russia directly it has been supporting Russia politically all the while.
I agree….if anyone spent a little time they could see what is going on….it really is not all that difficult. chuq
I feel sure the main thrust of Trump’s foreign policy will be a degree of isolationism, and a watering-down of US involvement in NATO. He has previously complained about the USA paying too much of its share in NATO, so we might see him reducing expenditure. But money will still talk via the MIC, and oil will remain the prize.
Best wishes, Pete.
I have no idea…..I will keep watching and writing. chuq
As far as I can tell, Trump has been completely vague on what he would do both in Ukraine and in Palestine. But he has said Ukraine will not get as much aid from the US once he takes office.
He has said he is neither a neoconservative or an isolationist. And he also denies being a fascist. And he says he wants us less involved in the internal affairs of other countries, and does not want us to be involved in wars where we do not have any interest. There are some clues there but not sure how all that ties together to form a policy.
Eisenhower was elected after he said he knew how to get a cease fire in Korea, without disclosing how he would do it In 1968 Nixon said he had a secret plan to end the war in Viet Nam. He did not say it would take seven years to implement his plan.
We will have to wait and see what happens.
Waiting is the worst part. chuq
We, ourselves, might be on the verge of entering the axis of authoritarianism.
Does appear to be a likelihood….but January will tell a lot chuq
January will be the time when the floodgates are opened an Hell will march in with full armor. They are already trying to get rid of the polio vaccine and other shots and to dismantle the federal deposit insurance corporation…among other things.
This is nwhat the voter wanted….let them sleep in their own stupidity. chuq
You are, alas, right, John
Oh thank you for the confirmation…while discomforting, I welcome it…let us forge ahead now—to inevitable oblivion….