Opinion: The improvement Trump could make to U.S. foreign policy
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Opinion: The improvement Trump could make to U.S. foreign policy

LA Times  

Donald Trump participates in a Security Council briefing on counterproliferation at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2018 at U.N. headquarters in New York. The idea that the United States upholds global stability by leading a “rules-based” order tends to generate more ill will than goodwill in many parts of the world. The concept of a rules-based order gained popularity in the D.C. foreign policy establishment, known as the “blob,” in recent years because it encapsulated how experts — liberals and neoconservatives alike, many blindsided by Trump and thrown out of power — viewed what they, and America, stood for. This “what’s-in-it-for-me” approach to world affairs may enable Trump to jettison Washington’s mythmaking about its coalition-of-the-willing international order. A working world order is an important condition for Trump’s apparent foreign policy goals — including winning the economic competition with China and forging peace in Ukraine.

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