Critics label the Trump-Vance ticket as isolationist in foreign policy. But the pair actually wants American priorities reordered to take on China.
and expensive insurance policies for Taiwan and NATO provoke new bouts of abandonment anxiety. At the Republican convention in Milwaukee last week, his vice presidential pick,that betray the generosity of the American taxpayer”. The US would “send our kids to war”, he said, “only when we must”.The spectre of American “isolationism”, second only to “appeasement” in terms of labels loathed most by the Washington foreign policy establishment, once more looms over a US election campaign.
Neoconservatives should stay away from sharp objects. John Bolton, a former national security adviser to Trump, said his old boss’ foreign policy will be “isolationist in its outlook”. And Bill Kristol, arch neoconservative and former editor of thethat Vance’s nomination constitutes nothing less than an “alarm bell in the night”, adding that “the Trump movement now is a full-on authoritarian movement”.
He outlined the “disasters” in Iraq and Afghanistan, critiqued the mindless revival of Cold War slogans, and, referring to Washington’s national security elites, wondered aloud at the “weird way in which they seize up when the foreign policy conventional wisdom is challenged in this town”. Yes, the circumstances are worlds apart. Nixon was signalling that the US was steadily abandoning Washington’s worldwide crusade against Communism. America would keep its treaty commitments and maintain its nuclear umbrella, but after Vietnam there would be no more American ground wars in Asia.
But Trump has given the clearest expression yet – as only a businessman can – in terms of how he sees the essence of alliances.
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