Last Thursday, Trump declared at a meeting with farm state senators that he wanted to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement among North American, Latin American and East Asian nations that Trump campaigned against and withdrew from in his first days in office. On Tuesday morning ― just prior to hosting meetings with the leader of one of those nations, Japan ― Trump declared on Twitter that the U.S. wouldn’t be entering the TPP after all. “While Japan and South Korea would like us to go back into TPP, I don’t like the deal for the United States,” he wrote. … [Read more...] about Trump’s Latest Foreign Policy Chaos Further Diminishes U.S. Standing, Critics Worry
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Rush: Trump’s Foreign Policy Wins ‘Nothing Short of Jaw Dropping’
"'Rush, come on, that can't possibly happen,'" he continued. "Well, neither could it possibly happen that we would ever sit down and have chat with Kim Jong-un or Kim Jong-il or any of the other Kim Jongs. But we have. … [Read more...] about Rush: Trump’s Foreign Policy Wins ‘Nothing Short of Jaw Dropping’
Sen. Tim Scott on Trump’s Foreign Policy: ‘So Far, So Good’
"The reality of it is that we elect a president, he has to be our leader on global affairs, on foreign affairs," Scott told Fox News. "I think so far, so good. We have to let him do what he's doing and be in a position to hold him accountable if we find something has gone off the rails." … [Read more...] about Sen. Tim Scott on Trump’s Foreign Policy: ‘So Far, So Good’
Majority of Russians Don’t Support Putin’s Foreign Policy, Poll Finds
Putin’s decisions to back the Syrian government and his apparent expansionist ambitions, such as supporting separatist rebels in Ukraine, don’t appear to be popular with ordinary Russians, with only 16 percent telling the independent Levada Center they support the current foreign policy in a poll published Thursday. … [Read more...] about Majority of Russians Don’t Support Putin’s Foreign Policy, Poll Finds
Caroline Glick: The Immoral Foreign Policy of the ‘Resistance’
Like Israel, the U.S. cannot help its allies if it doesn’t help itself. The U.S. cannot advance its interests if they are subjected to automatic vetoes by allies acting selfishly. It cannot advance its interests if it maintains faith with “moral” policies, like the Iran nuclear deal and similarly failed nuclear agreements with North Korea, at the expense of actual counter-proliferation strategies that may involve smiling and waving while standing next to Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin. … [Read more...] about Caroline Glick: The Immoral Foreign Policy of the ‘Resistance’
