![]() ![]() Or the previously floated unilateral plans (now in limbo) to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan. Soleimani, of which European allies were not informed. Then there is the consistent threat of the use of force – against Venezuela, North Korea, at one point against Russia in the Middle East – and the actual use of force against Iran in the drone strike against Gen. ![]() The list of infractions against the global multilateral order is even longer: From obstructing Congressional funding to UN programs to withdrawal from the Paris Climate accords and the UN Human Rights Council (and a number of other UN entities in violation of treaty obligations) to crippling the WTO appellate court, to leaving the international arms control system to languish and playing empty chair politics at the G-7. With the extended “Muslim ban,” the systematic and inhumane separation of migrant families at the Southern border, and the casting of long-standing European allies as “foes,” the President has further managed to alienate large swathes of the international community, with a purpose, because as he told the UN General Assembly “globalists are not the future.”Īfter more than 70 years, the transatlantic relationship is at its nadir, because of the President’s geo-economic hedging and decoupling, his undercutting of the cornerstone EU diplomatic initiative in the JCPOA and his consistent questioning of NATO’s purpose. institutions, both in national security and in domestic policy. The Trump administration has worked deliberately (under the guise of ridding the country of the “deep state”) to hollow out U.S. The trauma of the Trump administration’s assault on postwar order will resonate beyond the (first) four years of any Democratic administration and will deepen dramatically, should he be re-elected in November. In three short years, the president has done profound damage to the country’s international credibility and its capacity for moral suasion – key ingredients of the soft power that made it the anchor of liberal western world order of which it was the chief architect 70 years ago. Even if his administration ends on JanuDonald Trump will have created a destructive legacy in foreign and domestic policy the depth of which is unrivalled in modern American history. ![]()
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