Among the most pointed criticisms of
the presidency of Donald J. Trump is the charge that he has done
serious damage to the remarkably beneficial global political, military,
and economic arrangements that emerged from World War II, and that
preserving them depends on his departure from office. The charge is not
accurate. While it is true that Mr. Trump is no friend to the world
order he inherited with the office, he has done only modest damage to
it, and the most severe threat to it is not his creation and so will
outlive his term in office.
For seven decades after 1945, America’s alliances, its military deployments, and its support for cross-border trade and investment helped to bring peace and prosperity to much of the world. The relevant policies originated in the Oval Office. The President proposed them, persuaded the Congress and the public to support them, and took responsibility for putting them into practice. Every post-1945 President, beginning with Harry Truman, was committed to this American global role.
Then came Donald Trump. He presented himself as the exception to that pattern—skeptical of alliances, opposed to free trade, and dedicated to the proposition that the peace and prosperity that the world had enjoyed had cost the United States too much and that the policies undergirding them should, therefore, come to an end. His election in 2016 seemed to portend the demise of the world order the United States had done so much to establish and sustain.
Read more at: Will the American Global Order Survive Donald Trump? - The American Interest
For seven decades after 1945, America’s alliances, its military deployments, and its support for cross-border trade and investment helped to bring peace and prosperity to much of the world. The relevant policies originated in the Oval Office. The President proposed them, persuaded the Congress and the public to support them, and took responsibility for putting them into practice. Every post-1945 President, beginning with Harry Truman, was committed to this American global role.
Then came Donald Trump. He presented himself as the exception to that pattern—skeptical of alliances, opposed to free trade, and dedicated to the proposition that the peace and prosperity that the world had enjoyed had cost the United States too much and that the policies undergirding them should, therefore, come to an end. His election in 2016 seemed to portend the demise of the world order the United States had done so much to establish and sustain.
Read more at: Will the American Global Order Survive Donald Trump? - The American Interest
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