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'America first' or America alone?

The problem is that Trump sounds and acts like he does not care throwing the baby out with bathwater

Illustration by Binay Sinha
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Illustration by Binay Sinha

Claude Smadja
Read carefully these lines from Lieutenant General H R McMaster, US national security advisor, and Gary Cohn, chief economic advisor to President Donald Trump, in a joint column published recently in the Wall Street Journal: “The world is not a ‘global community’ but an arena where nations, non-governmental actors and businesses engage and compete for advantage,” they wrote. “We bring to this forum unmatched military, political, economic, cultural and moral strength. Rather than deny this elemental nature of international affairs, we embrace it.”

This is presumably as close as it gets to the enunciation of a Trump worldview and foreign policy
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