Trump’s Foreign Policy Won’t Make America Stronger
Severing alliances, disrupting trade, courting autocrats and abandoning US leadership will only sow chaos and failure.
Isolationist.
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The Republican Party platform summarizes Donald Trump’s foreign policy as a “return to peace through strength.” If the former president holds to his hash of vague and often contradictory pledges, the opposite is more likely.
That’s a big if, of course. Former advisers purporting to lay out Trump’s vision may be optimistically identifying it with their own. He himself does not fit neatly into any of the three camps that divide the party — traditionalists who want the US to be more assertive globally, isolationists who prefer to pull back, and China-focused hawks who argue resources and attention should shift to Asia. Trump remains preoccupied with flashy deals that might burnish his reputation and ratings.