Donald Trump’s foreign and defense policy ideas going into 2025 seem, in part, to resemble those of Republican Senator Robert Taft during the 1952 Republican primary. Let me briefly explain.
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Taft proposed a continental defense and selective containment strategy, relying on U.S. air and naval power, balance-of-power politics, and nuclear deterrence—an offshore balancing approach.
This strategy aims to maintain regional hegemony in the Western hemisphere while preserving a balance of power in Asia and Europe through U.S.-allied nations bolstered by American military hardware, thus preventing any other great power from dominating these geostrategically important regions.
This resonates with Trump's focus on Canada, Mexico, the Panama Canal, and Greenland (unless you think this post is the trolling/rambling of a mad man).
While the text contained internal contradictions, it also presented one of the few genuine alternatives to the prevailing foreign policy consensus that had largely endured in Washington from the 1950s until 2016.
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Unintentionally, are you sane washing here.