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Since 2015, Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized the American foreign policy establishment
for being too belligerent and unwilling to negotiate with adversaries. But in office, Trump has
carried out a foreign policy that has all the vices he has criticized and been even more inclined
to risk war or get into new wars. In a recent essay in The New York Times, Stephen Wertheim,
a senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, has written an incisive critique of Donald Trump’s foreign policy
incoherence emphasizing how the president’s ad hoc response to problems and his excessive
faith in his own deal making ability prevents any systematic change from the status quo.
Stephen and I have a wide-ranging discussion on the over-stretched American empire and why
Trump is just making things worse.
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Since 2015, Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized the American foreign policy establishment
for being too belligerent and unwilling to negotiate with adversaries. But in office, Trump has
carried out a foreign policy that has all the vices he has criticized and been even more inclined
to risk war or get into new wars. In a recent essay in The New York Times, Stephen Wertheim,
a senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, has written an incisive critique of Donald Trump’s foreign policy
incoherence emphasizing how the president’s ad hoc response to problems and his excessive
faith in his own deal making ability prevents any systematic change from the status quo.
Stephen and I have a wide-ranging discussion on the over-stretched American empire and why
Trump is just making things worse.
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