"Trump proclaims drug traders a national security threat, then pardons the corrupt Honduran president jailed for making millions shipping drugs into this country. He embraces Arab emirates after pocketing their investment in his hotels and crypto scams. He anoints himself the President of Peace while bombing Iran, Yemen and Somalia, and fishing boats in the Caribbean, aiding and abetting Israel's genocidal horrors in Gaza, putting troops at risk in Iraq and Syria, and pursuing terrorists in some 80 countries. So, it goes."
"The document opens by proclaiming a long overdue break with the failed policies of the last decades. It denounces "American foreign policy elites" who "convinced themselves that permanent American domination of the entire world was in the best interests of our country." It declares the end of America's unipolar illusions, and the endless wars entailed in trying to police the world. The Trump Administration, we are assured, will be all about America First."
The administration proclaims a break from unipolar American domination and the end of endless policing of the world, embracing America First. It portrays drug traffickers as national security threats while tolerating corrupt allies and transactional ties with Gulf emirates enriched through investments tied to the president. It pairs rhetoric of restraint with continued use of force—bombing Iran, Yemen, Somalia, and deploying operations in about 80 countries—while supporting Israel's actions in Gaza. It calls for settling the Ukraine war, strategic stability with Russia, limits to NATO expansion, greater European burden-sharing, and emphasizes economic competition with China.
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