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American foreign policy (view source)
Revision as of 19:00, February 26, 2025
, 19:00, February 26, 2025→Second Trump Administration (2025 - present)
===Second Trump Administration (2025 - present)===
===Second Trump Administration (2025 - present)===
[[President Donald J. Trump’]]'s radical [[foreign policy]] moves stunned observers. President Trump openly dismissed [[Ukraine]], reducing it to a "burden" that [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] should no longer carry. For Trump, [[Western Europe]] is a [[parasite]] living off American largesse. His [[rhetoric]], infused with anti-[[elitism|elitist]] [[populism]], turned the usual [[Western alliance|Western]] mantras of [[democracy]] and [[human rights]] against the very [[nation]]s that long championed them.
Trump's disdain for Ukraine is not driven by [[geopolitical]] [[strategy]] but by [[domestic]] calculations. His focus is [[China]], not [[Eastern Europe]]. He wants to redirect American attention to [[trade imbalance]]s, the [[Arctic]], [[Latin America]], and the [[Indo-Pacific]]. Yet, Ukraine, framed by [[Joe Biden]]'s regime as the defining battle between "[[good]] and [[evil]]", became an [[ideological]] lightning rod. The [[Biden]] [[White House]] staked everything on a [[victory]] over Russia. Trump, in typical fashion, sought to destroy that narrative, turning it inside out.
==See also==
==See also==