Trump Diverts From 'America First' as He Seeks to End Wars, Snag Foreign Dollars

Trump's foreign policy: deals with allies over diplomacy with rivals

When President Trump talks about his foreign policy, he often frames it as a business deal. He says much less about conventional diplomacy, like ending the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.

The End of Neoconservatism - LewRockwell

In what can be called a victory speech over failed neoconservative foreign policy, President Donald Trump proclaimed the end of 30-some years of existing foreign policy in the Mideast. The ideology dragged the U.S. through pointless wars from Libya to Yemen is now dead. At an investment conference in Riyadh, in a speech little-commented on by the mainstream media, Trump said, “In the end, the so-called nation builders wrecked far more nations th…

Analysis: Trump diverts from ‘America First’ as he seeks to end wars, snag foreign dollars

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has pivoted from his “America First” philosophy in recent weeks with his pursuit of trillions in foreign investment dollars and his prolonged efforts to end two foreign wars, as congressional Democrats raise new concerns.

Trump diverts from 'America First' as he seeks to end wars, snag foreign dollars

ANALYSIS — President Donald Trump has pivoted from his “America First” philosophy in recent weeks with his pursuit of trillions in foreign investment dollars and his prolonged efforts to end two foreign wars, as congressional Democrats raise new concerns. Trump has been using the powers of his office to conduct foreign policy mostly without much input from the legislative branch. But he could soon find that walking a lavender carpet in Saudi Ara…

The Decoupling Doctrine: Trump's Middle East Policies Break with Tradition

As Trump returned from the Middle East in mid-May, he carried with him a slew of new decisions in the name of his so-called "America First" foreign policy. To put it plainly, we may be witnessing the start of a fundamental shift in U.S. foreign policy that few thought possible in our lifetime: the decoupling of U.S. interests from Israeli national security.The U.S.-Houthi (Ansar Allah) truce on May 6, as an example of this dynamic, did not happe…

The great challenge of rearming Europe

In a speech in Saudi Arabia earlier this month, Donald Trump laid out a radical new approach to US foreign policy. No longer would America concern itself with promoting values such as democracy and liberty. What matters now is deals, regardless of political differences.