DECRYPTION – With the desire to put America's interests above all else, the future American president already sees himself confronted with a global crisis, where the United States' adversaries now form an alliance on a planetary scale.
Trump is once again in charge of American foreign policy. Even before officially taking office, the future president has already become the main interlocutor of foreign leaders, who call Mar-a-Lago rather than the White House. His return to business is partly due to the setbacks of his predecessor, Joe Biden. In addition to the themes of domestic policy, inflation and immigration, Trump campaigned fiercely criticizing the foreign policy of the Democratic Administration. Calling Biden incompetent and his advisors « clowns » whom no one respects, he accused them of dragging the United States into a third world war through their weakness.
Instead, Trump promised « peace through strength ». This motto, undoubtedly invented by historians for the Roman emperor Hadrian, had already served as a slogan for Ronald Reagan after the international fiascos of Jimmy Carter. Like that of giving…
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