"Until recently, Donald Trump was consistent about this: The time for the United States to police the world, enforcing laws and norms, was over. "We are going to take care of this country first before we worry about everybody else in the world," he told The New York Times in 2016. "We more and more are not wanting to be the policemen of the world," he said during a press conference with Nigeria's president in 2018."
""We're spending tremendous amounts of money for decades policing the world, and that shouldn't be the priority." During the 2020 campaign, he often included a line in his stump speech complaining that American troops had spent 19 years serving as "policemen" in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Trump also rejected the idea that the United States had any kind of moral standing to criticize, much less regulate, the behavior of other nations."
Donald Trump previously advocated ending U.S. global policing and prioritizing domestic concerns, arguing against long military commitments and claiming the United States lacked moral standing to lecture others. In his later term, he reversed course and embraced interventionist actions, including U.S. airstrikes in Nigeria and the capture of Venezuelan autocrat Nicolás Maduro and his wife in Caracas. He suggested the United States could spend years controlling Venezuela. The current posture pairs unilateral military operations with rhetoric that diminishes legal and moral checks on U.S. conduct toward foreign leaders.
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