Posted on 11/08/2025 7:57:41 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Donald Trump is often described as a “populist,” a “nationalist,” or as someone who sits outside the traditional ideological categories. However, when one examines his foreign policy closely, a different picture emerges. Trump is, in practice, a neoconservative.
He is not a neoconservative in the sense we once knew: he does not cloak American interventions in the language of democracy promotion, human rights, or universal values…What makes him distinctive is not the substance of his policies, but the way he frames them, stripped of the moralizing tone. Oddly enough, this makes his foreign policy more transparent—and perhaps, in some ways, more refreshing.
Classical neoconservatism was never only about hawkish foreign policy. It was about the marriage of power and ideals..Its architects spoke of freedom as a guiding principle and cast interventions as noble missions to uplift societies. The failures in Iraq and Afghanistan discredited much of this idealism, but at least the worldview maintained coherence: American force was justified because it was said to serve universal values.
Trump’s foreign policy, however, looks strikingly similar in its outcomes yet arrives without the pretense. Take Israel. Trump is perhaps the most pro-Israel president in American history. He moved the US embassy to Jerusalem, recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, and midwifed the Abraham Accords… Yet Trump did not package these moves as part of a grand moral project.
Or consider Ukraine. Despite his soft rhetoric toward Vladimir Putin, Trump approved lethal aid for Kyiv in his first term, a step that the Obama administration avoided...
The most striking example may be Afghanistan. Trump criticized “forever wars” and promised withdrawals, but he has also recently floated the idea of returning to Afghanistan after the Biden administration’s chaotic exit.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalinterest.org ...
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“American force was justified because it was said to serve universal values”
Effin’ do gooders should lose the right to vote, but should be the very first one’s drafted to war.
The above quotation demonstrates the epitome of stupid, the very pinnacle of stupid for a nation.
“The publication above is run by the Nixon Center and Henry Kissinger, the Grand Neoconnest of them all”
Nonsense.
Kissinger practiced Realpolitik and abhorred neoconservatives.
“Trump’s foreign policy is on the verge of morphing into George W. Bush’s.”
I agree.
It was bait and switch.
Those in the press who support Russia and Trump, in that order, are supporting Putin's war in Ukraine over Trump's efforts to stop it.
Now that Trump has had enough of Putin taking him for a fool, and is taking real action to oppose Russia's invasion, he's a neocon now.
I voted for and support Trump, not those who pretend to speak for him or what he should do for their own ends.
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Donald Trump is as American as it gets and it’s why the democrats hate him and his followers so much.
They are on a crusade to eliminate both.
What is the question?
to explain the distinction
Do you mean the difference between neoconservatism and realpolitik?
Grok knows.
And it’s the debate hosted by your source publication for the last 30 years.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/42894387
You're either ignorant or naïve idiot with mentality of a five-year old.
ChiComs could be 911 if they wanted to be.
ChiComs could be 911 if they wanted to be.
They create anti-Trump threads or jump from anti-Trump thread to anti-Trump thread with the frequency of a cheap ham radio.
President Trump is a Jacksonian Nationalist. Neither a neo- con nor Isolationist. Peace through strenth. And it works.
You wrote something that was demonstrably untrue, and she shut down your error... so you resort to the “you’re with Hamas” smear. What an absolute d-bag.
Shutting TF up is an option, rather than making a total moron out of yourself.
Tiny brain.
And no, I am not fond of the direction Tucker Carlson is taking currently. I agree with Ben Shapiro’s critiques of him.
I don’t agree with Ben on certain policies, but at least he has integrity.
>>”Trump does not have a core ideology. Just going by his gut. And it works.”
Agreed. If he has a core ideology it’s pragmatism.
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