I’ve never seen so much outside-of-the-box thinking about foreign policy, and yet, when you think about it, so much of this outside-of-the-box thinking seems obvious after you’ve thought about it for a couple of minutes.
1. Trump is right about not having toppled Mideast dictators (in the name of “Democracy”). The West would be FAR better off if the Mideast status quo from a decade earlier had been maintained.
2. Much of current foreign policy is simply stagnated momentum leftover from WWII and the cold war. What good does NATO actually do the U.S. right now other than to potentially drag the U.S. into stupid, useless wars in which we have no real dog in the fight, e.g. Turkey p!ssing off Russia? Half of the old Soviet Union wants to join or already has joined NATO. The old Warsaw Pact is long extinct, so what is it exactly that NATO is countering? If Europe wants to keep NATO, then let them pay for most of it.
3. Nukes for our allies Korea and Japan are a fine idea: nukes keep pretty much EVERYONE with a military from attacking you. Period. So if our Korean and Japanese allies had their own nukes, then the U.S. would no longer be obligated to protect them militarily. So if Korea and the Norks nuke each other or if Japan and China nuke each other, the U.S. wouldn’t automatically be obligated to engage in nuclear war.
4. And if/when we do continue to provide military protection to rich countries like Saudi Arabia and South Korea, then yes, let them pay for it. Why shouldn’t they?
5. And none of this is isolationist, it’s simply a matter of our allies standing on their own two feet.
And finally, besides formulating a 21st century foreign policy instead of coasting along on an obsolete 20th century foreign policy, Trump’s foreign policy ideas are brilliant from a political perspective as well, since you know damn good and well that that fool Hillary Clinton will feel obligated to knee-jerk oppose whatever Trump says, which is going to cause her to come off as a major war-monger, which will NOT make her look tough, but instead will p!ss off quite a bit of her pacifist base. No doubt this latter is a deliberate manipulation on Trump’s part.