Well, we can call the emerging foreign policy by different names -- Bertrand's "end of the American empire," Trump's "America First," Bannon's "nationalist populism" (in a convo with Douthat of NYT)... and the old-fashioned term of "isolationist" foreign policy.
What seems to be emerging from the rapid and seemingly chaotic moves of the T…
Well, we can call the emerging foreign policy by different names -- Bertrand's "end of the American empire," Trump's "America First," Bannon's "nationalist populism" (in a convo with Douthat of NYT)... and the old-fashioned term of "isolationist" foreign policy.
What seems to be emerging from the rapid and seemingly chaotic moves of the Trump regime is the following:
a) there's no real taste for war, or spending American tax dollars on war;
b) the tariffs are a typical Trump business-negotiating ploy, and he'll get something out of it, and give some as necessary;
c) there's an acceptance of a multipolar world -- to replace the neocon vision of hegemony -- as articulated by Marco Rubio; and lastly
d) all of the above has the Democrats back on their heels, completely discombobulated and hapless.
Well, we can call the emerging foreign policy by different names -- Bertrand's "end of the American empire," Trump's "America First," Bannon's "nationalist populism" (in a convo with Douthat of NYT)... and the old-fashioned term of "isolationist" foreign policy.
What seems to be emerging from the rapid and seemingly chaotic moves of the Trump regime is the following:
a) there's no real taste for war, or spending American tax dollars on war;
b) the tariffs are a typical Trump business-negotiating ploy, and he'll get something out of it, and give some as necessary;
c) there's an acceptance of a multipolar world -- to replace the neocon vision of hegemony -- as articulated by Marco Rubio; and lastly
d) all of the above has the Democrats back on their heels, completely discombobulated and hapless.