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The Virtues And Risks Of Trump’s Foreign Policy
In some perverse sense, Donald Trump may deserve credit for jettisoning post-World War II decorum wh
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Bull in a china shop. Reckless.
Trump is trying to stuff all his dreams into reality before the clock runs out after midterms. He’s getting spread a little thin what with Argentina, Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, Greenland, Syria, Iran, maybe Yemen and Ukraine/Russia. And that only accounts for the foreign affairs portion of his book. Impressive that he has the time to destroy the East Wing, attach his name to an ever growing list of buildings all while enriching himself and his sons by billions. Must be a lot of RFK jr protein in those well done Mickey D burgers.
I am predisposed to always look at the upside—look for the opportunity—in everything that happens. As much as I detest the man and his ways, I think that hastening along the glacially-slow collapse of the post-WWII order, and making it explicit, might be a good thing. PROVIDED we—and I use the term in the broadest sense to include everyone who embraces what I’d call liberal democracies and managed capitalism—provided we look for and pounce on the opportunities to create something better out of the rubble.
Dwight Eisenhower famously said something like, “The success or failure of this occupation will be judged by the character of the Germans fifty years from now. Proof will come when they begin to run a democracy of their own…”. Similarly, the real results of the havoc Trump is wreaking probably won’t really be known for decades.