The article critiques the Trump administration, arguing that outrage against its policies is counterproductive. It examines the influences shaping Trump, including his personality, the ideas of certain intellectuals, and structural factors like job loss and governance failures. The implications for foreign policy are also considered, particularly in relation to NATO and Ukraine, highlighting Trump's isolationist tendencies and the flawed views of certain foreign policy schools on the role of values in international relations.
One Trump administration was a mistake; two Trump administrations will be read, correctly, as a divergence that can never be repaired.
Ice is more advisable than fire in this situation, and the situation is better assessed with a cold head than a hot one.
Trump's vindictive, amoral, autocratic, and ignorant personality is the most obvious influence on the administration.
The so-called international-relations realists, and even the advocates of the 'restrainer' school of American foreign policy, have the unrealistic notion that values should play no role in foreign policy.
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