In a speech in Saudi Arabia in May, Trump criticized past American presidents for being 'afflicted with the notion that it's our job to look into the souls of foreign leaders and use U.S. policy to dispense justice for their sins,' mocking 'so-called nation-builders, neocons, or liberal nonprofits' as useless. He has long ridiculed the Republican establishment for its management of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan'though more in the tone of a fan angry about his team losing than of a principled opponent of militarism. Last week, Trump unveiled his National Security Strategy, which claims that European nations face 'civilizational erasure' resulting from the politics of the European Union, and from 'migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence.' To the extent the document articulates any strategy at all, it appears...
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