Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Speech
Paul Craig Roberts
Readers and foreign news organizations are
asking me the meaning of Donald Trump’s foreign policy speech.
On the surface, his speech is contradictory.
Trump says he will rebuild US military might so that America will always be
first. Yet Trump emphasizes that “we want to live peacefully and in friendship
with Russia and China.”
In a multi-polar world, there is no first
country.
Perhaps the “America first” bit is just an
effort to ward off neoconservative attacks on his policy of peace. Perhaps
Trump means that the US is going to continue to be the top dog, but that the US
is going to cease using muscle to make others do what Washington wants.
Trump says that he will put together a fresh
team of foreign policy experts, assuming the US has any. Most Americans are
full of themselves, and after two decades of neoconservative hubris, finding a
fresh team won’t be easy.
Presidents inherit messes that leave them no
time to become organized. A president’s appointees have to be confirmed by the
Senate, an entity controlled by powerful private interests. Trump will be
advised that this and that person cannot be confirmed and that he must send a
compromise candidate for Senate confirmation.
Moreover, presidents are outside the loop of
black op affairs. A false flag event can be pulled off that sends Trump in the
direction desired by the military/security complex or Israel.
In my opinion, should Trump be elected, the
importance would be that the electorate would have declared their lack of
confidence in the political establishment. Unless Trump can put the
establishment into the trash bin of history, he would not be able to accomplish
much.
Thus, the result of a Trump failure could be a
demoralized electorate that gives up.
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts' latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West, How America Was Lost, and The Neoconservative Threat to World Order.
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