Trump does not have a core ideology. Just going by his gut. And it works.
BRidiculous. We shouldn’t be the world’s policeman, but when you are the biggest gorilla in the room, you have to take action at times in your country’s best interests, or you will be replaced.
What is wrong with Israel defending its self.
The other thing is that Trump will pursue these foreign objectives, but I believe he draws the line with "boots on the ground."
He's put that tool away, but has sharpened the other tools in the American foreign policy tool kit.
It certainly wasn't during a Trump administration.(It was Biden's just so you know)
After ten years of railing against unnecessary foreign war and neocon and globalist foreign policy, Trump's foreign policy is on the verge of morphing into George W. Bush's.
It's may be biggest reason Republicans got their asses handed to them on Tuesday.
Trump must not go to war in way in Venezuela, needs to stop obsessing over anything going on in the middle east and needs to pull us out of any involvement in the war in Ukraine.
If not, Republicans will lose the House and, maybe, the Senate, too, next year.
National Interest?
Never heard of them
He wants Bagram Airbase back to deter Chinese ambitions. That's not neoconservatism; it's a Cold War philosophy.
Bush Jr. may have believed in the idealistic pretexts, but hardheaded Cheney was a lot more concerned with power and bulldozing anything that stood in his way or in the way of American primacy in the world.
Trump did take a turn in their direction after being elected. Bush also turned. When he ran for president, Bush talked about a “more modest” foreign policy that would reject “nation-building,” but once he and Cheney had their hands on the tools and toys (and after 911) he went into intervention and nation-building with a vengeance.
Trump recognizes that we can’t be the world’s hegemon and that we have to deal with rival and opposing powers, but when you’re president of the United States it’s hard not to use the tools you have at hand, so it’s possible he’ll follow past presidents in going too far.
DJT had these scoundrels boxed in last time around, not so much this time. My $$ is still on him. He has too much common sense to follow the warpigs into a blind corner.
I think reducing this to a “which ideology is winning” type argument misses with Donald Trump. He isn’t an ideologue. Rather, I think that the ideologues are using every move by the President as a proxy move on their chess board.
Trump did X today- he’s a neocon. Trump did Y, he’s rejecting the neocons.
To me it is a much simpler formula.
What did he run on? Those issues are important to the coalition who voted for him. Is he giving those issues enough attention and getting results?
I think spending time on peace deals and trade pacts isn’t helping. As JD said, he needs to come home. He needs to laser on showing his trad deals are moving actual dirt to build actual manufacturing or whatever that will create jobs. He needs to laser on reducing costs. Home, home, home.
Hard to sell America First when you are signing peace deals. Baris is correct, some of that working class dem part of the coalition came back home to D in this last election.
honestly trump has been too neocon for my tastes.
We should sanction anyone who recognizes palestine.
Israel should never give up control of Judea and Samaria.
We should not allow EU to send ukes US weapons,
rather for economic reasons let em fight and sell weapons to both sides.I still hope he can end this proxy war on russia.
and he’s still the best president in my lifetime(warts and all)
That’s King Trump and he wants the new DC Commanders stadium named after him in Big Gold letters!
This article is retarded.
I suppose since there’s no barf alert you agree with this.
What’s with the label, Mabel?
Don’t try to pigeonhole Donald Trump. He is truly a “one of a kind”. He doesn’t belong to some “group”, He IS the group.
In fact, we are ALL individuals. Who the hell are you to decide if and what group someone belongs in?
There are two schools. The Neocon school of getting involved in every countries politics through skunk-works and illegal missiles and spy-craft. And then there is the idea that the world will handle its own problems by itself.
The problem that Trump has, is that the world has a preexisting condition. That is the CIA is already involved everywhere. And China, the EU and Russia are also already involved. So Trump can’t always just cut and run. But he can say, I want to have a softer touch, where we lead with business instead of missiles. Where we don’t support governments that can’t support themselves. Nor do we support dictators that don’t treat their people well.
Most of the world naturally tends to a good form of government with a little corruption and life is good. Even if that government is a king or other dictator. Most people live in the world below dictator. They care about their children and their next meal. Not who is running the government.
So Trump has to kick the CIA out of American politics. And ratchet it down, but realize that when it does. China may just fill the void. Of course this may be better than blowing up things. or secretly killing people. Our CIA has gone rogue. And it needs to be cut back. Also, the EU and England and Israel with their own spies are playing in the US politics. They too need to be kicked out. They are in both parties. They need to go.
Dumbest article of the week.
That is the essence of American thought now. Before you can proceed to say anything about anybody, you have to apply a label and shoehorn facts in to fit the already prescribed description.
Historians use to wait a couple of hundred years to gather up the all the circumstances of the time.
“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.