The Foreign Policy Crises of Trump 47
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Some thoughts on how Trump will deal with some of the crises he helped create in his first term…
Donald Trump is set to begin his term as the 47th President of the United States at a moment of international turmoil. Wars rage in Eastern Europe and Central Africa. The Middle East remains in its characteristic state of chaos. Simmering crises in the Western Pacific and Latin America demand attention.
That some of these problems may be the legacy of failures of Trump’s first administration is irrelevant; they are problems that the President will need to deal with in order to carry out a more successful foreign policy than Trump 45. Here are the five areas that will require the attention of the President and his national security team on January 20, his first day in office.
Foreign policy is complicated and it’s naive to argue that all of the problems we’re facing now are the result of Trump’s ineptitude the first time around. It’s not, in the fullness of time, as if we’re going to declare Biden’s foreign policy as a roaring success. Still, Trump took a left turn and managed to not solve and/or exacerbate pretty much every foreign policy situation he faced. Things could get ugly.
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