Trump and foreign policy: Bold promises, unmet goals
Washington – When the President Trump returned to the White House in January, he promised to deliver Great foreign policy wins in a record time.
He said he would do Stop Russia’s war against Ukraine In 24 hours or less time, Israel almost ended the Gaza’s war in Gaza almost quickly and forced Iran to finish its nuclear program. He said he would convince Canada 51. Be a stateTake Greenland from Denmark and negotiate 90 trade agreements in 90 days.
“The President believes that his personality power can bend people to do something, Ste Steve Witkoff, a special ambassador for everything special, announced in May In the Breitbart interview.
Six months later, None of these ambitious goals reached.
Ukraine and Gaza are still in war. Israel and the United States bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities, but it is not clear whether the country’s atomic program ends once and for everyone. Canada and Denmark did not surrender to any region. And instead of trade agreements, Trump mostly slaps tariffs in other countries to the shortage of US stock markets.
It turned out that personality power could not solve every problem.
“Foreign Policy Director Kori Schake, the Conservative American Enterprise Institute, said,” He has overwhelmed his power and underestimated others’ ability to push back, “he said. “We are the only person who has often leverage, power or the ability to take action. We are not.”
President notched IMPORTANT SUCCESS. He won a commitment from other members of NATO. Increase defense expenditures 5% of the gross domestic product. The attack on Iran seems to have brought it back for years, even if it has not finished Tehran’s nuclear project. And Trump – or rather, assistants – India and Pakistan and Between Rwanda and the Republic of Democratic Congo.
However, none of those who measured the targets that Trump initially set for him – is much less qualified for the Nobel Peace Prize that he announced to the public. “I will not receive the Nobel Peace Prize for this”When the Rwanda-Congo agreement was signed, it grumbled.
The most striking example of the expectations that did not return came in Ukraine, claiming that Trump could end even before the opening.
For months, Trump made sure that the warm relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin would make an agreement to stop the war, making most of his troops in Russia and making an agreement that would end the US economic sanctions in Moscow.
Orum I believe you want peace, Tr Trump said in February Putin. “I trust him. “
But according to Trump’s surprise, Putin was not satisfied with his offer. The Russian leader continued to bomb Ukraine cities even after Trump stopped through social media (”(”Vladimir, stop!”).
Critics claimed that Putin was playing Trump foolly. The president made: “Nobody plays me.”
But at an early date until April, he confessed to doubts about Putin’s goodwill. “Maybe he makes you think he doesn’t want to stop the war, he’s just touching me,” he said.
Trump, “I’m talking about it very much with him, and I always close the phone and say ‘good, this was a nice phone call’ and then the missiles were thrown into Kiev or another city.
The President also pressure from the Republican Hawks in the Republican Hawks, who warned that if Ukraine’s collapse would be accused of the fall of Trump’s predecessor President Biden for the fall of Afghanistan in 2022.
Trump changed the route last week and announced that he would continue to supply US missiles to Ukraine-by selling them to European countries instead of giving Kiev to Kiev as he had.
In Trump He gave Putin 50 days To accept a ceasefire and to threaten to apply “secondary tariffs ına to the countries that buy oil from Russia if it does not comply.
He said he still hoped Putin’s future. BBC said in an interview, “I wasn’t over with him, but I disappointed him.”
It is still not clear whether Ukraine will receive long -range weapons that can hit the targets in the depths of Russia. A White House official said these details are still solved.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was not influenced by US actions. Im I have no doubt that we will deal with it, ”he said.
Foreign policy experts warned that Trump’s secondary tariffs may not be practical. Russia’s two largest oil customers are China and India; Trump is trying to negotiate major trade agreements with both.
Meanwhile, Trump sent Witkoff back to the Middle East to try to organize a ceasefire in Gaza and to reopen nuclear talks with Iran, which he started six months ago.
Foreign policy experts, despite the Mercurial style, Trump’s approach to all these foreign crises reflected the basic buildings that remained constant for ten years.
“There is a Trump doctrine and there are three basic principles, Schake said Schake. “Alliances are a burden. Trade exports American affairs. Migrants are stealing American affairs.”
Robert Kagan, who is currently assisted by a former Republican at the Brookings Institute, added another guiding principle: “The democrats prefer autocrats on the democrats.” Trump said that Putin and China have a soft point for foreign strong men such as Xi Jinping, and abandoned the US policy of encouraging democracy abroad.
Schake, the problem is that these principles “Trump’s ability to do worldwide works and seems to not realize it.
“The international order we built after World War II made the American power more powerful and more effective,” he said. “Trump and his administration seem to bending to preside the destruction of this international order.”
Moreover, Kagan argued that Trump’s crazy application of punishing tariffs for other countries is with serious costs.
“Tariffs are some kind of economic war,” he said. “Trump creates enemies for the United States all over the world.
Not surprisingly, Trump and his assistants do not agree.
The White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said last week, how successful the first six months of this administration is. ” “As President Trump Chief Commander, the world is a much safer place.”
It will be years to test this claim.
