{"id":10634,"date":"2017-09-29T14:07:48","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T21:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=10634"},"modified":"2017-09-29T14:13:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T21:13:04","slug":"two-first-quarter-cheers-for-trumps-principled-realism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/two-first-quarter-cheers-for-trumps-principled-realism\/","title":{"rendered":"Two First Quarter Cheers For Trump\u2019s Principled Realism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The content and trajectory of Donald Trump\u2019s foreign policy have defied the expectations of many of his supporters as well as his critics across the political spectrum. The President has moved a long way from his campaign positions of denigrating the value of America\u2019s democratic alliances and renouncing America\u2019s role as the world\u2019s default power essential to deterring hegemonic threats in vital geopolitical regions. The President has fired Steve Bannon, the paladin of a sizable segment of Trump\u2019s core constituency clamoring for American strategic retrenchment different in rationale, but similar in outcome to Obama\u2019s Dangerous Doctrine that weakened America. Instead, Trump\u2019s core national security team\u2014Secretary of Defense James Mattis, UN Ambassador Nicki Haley, and National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster\u2014consider America\u2019s military, political, and economic power indispensable to deterring and defeating global threats menacing to America\u2019s enlightened self-interest.<\/p>\n

What Trump calls \u201cPrincipled Realism rooted in shared values\u201d has not crystallized into a doctrine. Moreover, the president\u2019s volatility and unpredictability\u2014partially cultivated but also intrinsic\u2014make any prognostications about President Trump an endeavor marinating in conditions and caveats. Yet Trump\u2019s actions speak louder and more favorably about the substance of his national security policy than his often contradictory and confrontational words on the subject. Several core premises suffuse Trump\u2019s principle realism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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by Robert G. Kaufman\/\/Strategika \u00a0 Image credit: Poster Collection, US 05889, Hoover Institution Archives. The content and trajectory of Donald Trump\u2019s foreign policy have defied the expectations of many of his supporters as well as his critics across the political spectrum. The President has moved a long way from his campaign positions of denigrating the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[958,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Lw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11120,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-issue-49-the-value-of-economic-sanctions\/","url_meta":{"origin":10634,"position":0},"title":"Strategika Issue 49: The Value of Economic Sanctions","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Sanctions: The Record And The Rewards Please read a new essay by my colleague from the Military History Working Group, Josef Joffe in Strategika Why are sanctions so popular? 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