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What Does American Foreign Policy Look Like in a Post-Trump World?
What Trump changed, how he changed it, and what might need to happen going forward
It’s a monstrosity to navigate the web of Donald Trump’s foreign affairs through the years. His presidency began with Russian interference in the elections and his “little conflict of interest in Turkey”. That little conflict of interest was followed up with a typical Trumpism, clarifying that he had “two towers, instead of one. Not the usual one. It’s two.”
The backdrop of a Trump presidency has forecasted a weird trajectory moving forward. From disregarding the intelligence experts by his side, to ignoring policy advisors with magnitudes of experience, to exchanging deals under the table with Ukraine’s president or firing attorney generals for investigating his friends abroad, like Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for massive multi-billion dollar bank fraud.
Trump’s mishandling — or handling — or the covid crisis has been the major punctuation in a long list of failings. With nearly 250,000 Americans now dead to this pandemic, the view of America abroad has plummeted. In most cases…
