As Donald Trump and his associates have repeatedly stated, we can expect a total overhaul of U.S. foreign and military policy once the new administration assumes office in January. Rather than serve as a global leader and the world's policeman, they insist, the United States will now eschew foreign entanglements and place its own national interests above all others.
As part of this epochal shift, the United States will review all its foreign alliances-including those with Japan, South Korea, and the NATO countries-and only retain those which are both self-financing and directly beneficial to U.S. security and prosperity.
Such an approach, Trump's sycophants have told us, will usher in a more peaceful world than that overseen by President Biden. With the global defense of democracy and human rights and other such 'idealistic fantasies' no longer driving U.S. policy, we will be spared from involvement in any new 'forever wars' of the sort that have so depleted and demoralized the military.
How realistic is this vision? A retreat from global policing certainly has considerable appeal, and economic bargaining-however harmful to the inhabitants of countries involved-is proposed as a method to achieve geopolitical objectives.
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