PresidentI Donald Trump Yesterday, when talking to the media, claimed that Ukrainian leaders “should never have started war”.
On the other hand, Trump, who had attacked Ukraina, had nothing to say.
Trump appeared after the United States and Russia had long negotiations at the Foreign Minister’s level, after which both countries glowed them excellent.
Trump has translated the entire US foreign policy per month.
Trump’s statements have also been scandalized by most Republican foreign policy experts.
-This is a shameful full translation of the US 80-year foreign policy, Basket Schankkefrom the Conservative American Enterprise Institute stated In the New York Times. Schankke once worked on Republican President George W. Bushin In the administration as a security policy expert.
– During the Cold War, the United States never accepted the Baltic invasion of the Soviet Union. We are now accepting the Russian attack to create interests. Every US President for the last 80 years would oppose President Trump’s statement, Schankke said.
Traditionally, US presidents do not criticize their followers in public. Instead of a former Prime Minister of the UK John Major warning On Sunday, democracy is under threat.
– The big countries US, China and Russia are now working alone. If the United States no longer support its allies, we will move into a new and more dangerous world, Major said with the BBC.
First, the stopping of the Soviet Union and then Russia’s desires has merged people in the United States otherwise different people who think about foreign policy.
Now Trump considers the Russian brutal attack to be Ukraine’s own fate himself.
Trump has strongly criticized US allies, from Canada to Europe.
Instead of Russian Vladimir Putin He seems to truly admire.
He has compiled the positions of Russia’s Ukraine and promised Russia about everything he wanted before any actual peace talks have even begun.
The world of superpowers of the world
China and Russia have long criticized the rule -based world order created by the United States.
In practice, they have pushed for a kind of superpower thinking of the superpowers, where the great powers agree over the head of small states.
Just such a world, Trump seems to be driving now. Trump up to quoth Last week, it may be that Ukraine will become part of Russia.
The same circle of thinking is that Trump thinks the Greenland, Panama Canal or Gaza belong to the United States.
For Finland and other small states, this kind of superpowers of the superpowers are scary.
Many already saw echoes of the 1945 Yalta congress in Saudi Arabia in Tuesday’s negotiations in the US and Russia, where the winning states of World War II shared the world into the front circles.
Trump does not understand or want to understand the importance of ally relationships
Trump’s first presidential term as a US security policy advisor John Bolton It has described that Trump did not seem to understand the value of NATO’s defense union at all.
Bolton was shocked that Trump saw European defense as a mere expenditure, “bad deal”. Trump did not realize at all that the ally networks are also in the US’s own interest.
This is exactly what Trump is presenting: NATO membership is, from his point of view, something that Europeans do not pay enough for the United States.
Many American security policy experts have tried to emphasize that, for example, US military base in Europe also serve the US global strategic advantage except for the European defense.
Trump presented his foreign policy theses in his 2015 election book, “Crippled America.”
Even then, he suggested the idea that US allies must pay for the US Armed Forces protect them.
In his book, he barked at almost all parties, including the US long -term allies.
Instead, he did not speak a word about Russia in the book’s foreign policy section.
The threat of China is also answered in different ways than before
The Trump administration justifies its thinking by the fact that the US main opponent will be China in the future. The United States is very wide, and the party boundaries exceed the understanding that China is the country’s biggest challenge.
The Russian and Ukrainian war is a “distraction” that should be removed from the order, even if it means rejecting Ukraine to the Russian leading circle.
There is also a consensus that the United States would hardly be able to go to two wars at the same time, one in Europe and the other in Asia.
But Trump responds to the challenge by different means than previous US presidents. President Joe Biden He used tremendous energy to strengthen US alliance networks, including in Asia.
For Trump, it is more natural to make a “deal” Chinese leader XI Jinping with. Also Xit Trump admires openly.
For example, it may know difficult times for Taiwan.