It appears that, even though he is still just a candidate and not the President, Donald Trump’s foreign policy, the Trump Doctrine, is being implemented on the world stage! Consider.
Trump formally announced his candidacy for the presidency in the 2016 election on June 16, 2015.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump
He sat down with Bill O’Reilly in June 16, 2015 and said:
“I say that you can defeat ISIS by taking their wealth,” Trump told the Fox News Channel star. “Take back the oil. Once you go over and take back that oil, they have nothing. You bomb the hell out of them, and then you encircle it, and then you go in. And you let Mobil go in, and you let our great oil companies go in. Once you take that oil, they have nothing left.”
The Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War began on 30 September 2015, following a formal request by the Syrian government for military help against rebel and jihadist groups.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_intervention_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War
Around December 17, 2015, Putin offered high praise for the billionaire businessman-turned-Republican presidential front-runner on Thursday during an annual news conference with reporters.
“He is a bright and talented person without any doubt,” Putin said, adding that Trump is “an outstanding and talented personality.”
And in remarks closely mirroring Trump’s assessment of the campaign, the Russian leader called Trump “the absolute leader of the presidential race,” according to the Russian TASS news agency.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/17/politics/russia-putin-trump/index.html
Trump and the e-republicans. A plague on both their houses!