2. New Yorker: "Under the banner of 'America First,' President Trump is reducing U.S. commitments abroad."
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3. NY Times: world sees Trump's USA as "inward-looking.”
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4. In truth, far from being in retreat, isolationist, or in-ward looking Trump's foreign policy has been: more troops in Afghanistan, many more drones, & boasts about size of his nuclear button.
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5. Elite discourse about "isolationism" ignores fact Trump is actually a unilateralist & militarist.
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6. Both by design, by preference and partially by accident (Tillerson's incompetence) Trump has landed on foreign policy that is military first and side-lines diplomacy.
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7. Trump's America isn't isolationist or in retreat. It's much more dangerous: a rogue superpower:https://newrepublic.com/article/146459/america-not-retreat-its-rogue-superpower …
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He's like Sherman marching backwards from Atlanta.
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I don't fully comprehend this analogy, but I'm still a proponent of it.
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It's both, isn't it? Not unlike Brexiters, he wants to be part of the world community, but only on his terms. Which means taking but never giving. And when he meets resistance to that, he blusters and threatens.
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Hence, unilateralist.
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