Posted on 08/22/2018 2:33:39 AM PDT by Steve Schulin
... As his critics charge, Trump does reject many of the core tenets of the liberal international order, the sprawling and multifaceted system that the United States and its allies built and have supported for seven decades. Questioning the very fabric of international cooperation, he has assaulted the world trading system, reduced funding for the UN, denounced NATO, threatened to end multilateral trade agreements, called for Russias readmission to the G-7, and scoffed at attempts to address global challenges such as climate change. But despite what the crowd of globalists at Davos might say, these policies should be welcomed, not feared. Trumps transactional approach to foreign relations marks a United States less interested in managing its long-term relationships than in making gains on short-term deals. Trump has sent the message that the United States will now look after its own interests, narrowly defined, not the interests of the so-called global community, even at the expense of long-standing allies.
This worldview is fundamentally realist in nature. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at foreignaffairs.com ...
"On the domestic front, the unemployment rate fell to 3.8 percent in May, a level not seen since the heady days of the dot-com boomwith unemployment at an all-time low among African Americans; at or near multidecade lows among Hispanics, teenagers, and those with less than a high school education; and at a 65-year low among women in the labor force. Meanwhile, on Trumps watch, the stock market and consumer confidence have hit all-time highs, the number of mortgage applications for new homes has reached a seven-year high, and gas prices have fallen to a 12-year low. Finally, with Trump pledging to bring to an end the era in which 'our politicians seem more interested in defending the borders of foreign countries than their own,' illegal immigration was reduced by 38 percent from November 2016 to November 2017, and in April 2017, the U.S. Border Patrol recorded 15,766 apprehensions at the southwestern borderthe lowest in at least 17 years. ..."
Trumps transactional approach to foreign relations marks a United States less interested in managing its long-term relationships than in making gains on short-term deals.
He doesnt get it at all.
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A true Lurker that does not understand the “long term.”
Trump’s transactions are a turning point away from the crash and burn path we were on.
My apologies Lurker as we are in agreement. I first read the statement as yours, not a quote from the article.
My apologies Lurker as we are in agreement.
None are necessary. But it is appreciated.
Enjoy your day.
L
The typical FOREIGN AFFAIRS issue since 2016 election has been downright hostile to President Trump.
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My guess is they are a bunch of academics whose wealth depends on keeping crooked politicians happy.
The magazine is published by the Council on Foreign Relations, which is notorious for being a propaganda organ established by the same powerful interests who have been striving to rip apart our precious experiment in self-government since we declared independence from England. As odious as they might be, every crooked politician is far down from the top of this well-organized group. A book by former John Birch Society CEO Arthur R. Thompson (To the Victor Go the Myths and Monuments, 2016) includes a lot of information about many coordinated efforts to push God out of the public square and replace Him with global governance.
Randall L. Schweller is Professor of Political Science, Director of the Program for the Study of Realist Foreign Policy, a Social and Behavioral Sciences Joan N. Huber Faculty Fellow at Ohio State University, and editor-in-chief of Security Studies. Schweller joined OSU in 2004. He is the author of Maxwells Demon and the Golden Apple: Global Discord in the New Millennium (Johns Hopkins University, 2014); Unanswered Threats: Political Constraints on the Balance of Power (Princeton University Press, 2006); and Deadly Imbalances: Tripolarity and Hitlers Strategy of World Conquest (Columbia University Press, 1998). He has also published many articles in leading journals, including World Politics, International Studies Quarterly, International Security, American Political Science Review, Global Governance, American Journal of Political Science, Review of International Studies, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, The National Interest, International Theory, and Security Studies. He is currently a member of the editorial boards of International Security, Security Studies, Foreign Affairs Review (China), and the Studies in Asian Security book series published by Stanford University Press.
Trump has to mend a lot of fences... “O” as* hat screwed over our allies like crazy
If they ever trust us again it will be a miracle... I don’t know if they will EVER respect us again
Foreign Affairs is still fairer to the President then Foreign Policy. FP jumped the shark during the 2016 elution.
But it takes a long time to turn the titanic, obviously. Over six more years baby.
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