The Trump foreign policy

 NY Post:

President Trump has often extolled the virtues of achieving peace through strength — and now he’s actually doing it.

In the last few weeks, Trump has readopted the successful foreign policy of his first term to consolidate an alliance of pro-American democracies more powerful, and more united, than the burgeoning axis of evil sowing chaos across the globe.

The results have already been superlative.

Israel gained air superiority over Iran, and the United States used that advantage to execute a daring mission targeting Tehran’s sinister nuclear program.

America’s NATO allies pledged to significantly increase their defense spending.

And on Monday, Trump ordered the Pentagon to resume sending weapons to the Ukrainians, who continue their fight for national survival against the invading Russians.

“We’re gonna send some more weapons. We have to,” explained Trump. “They have to be able to defend themselves.”

This world-changing string of interconnected successes represents a return to form for the commander-in-chief.

During his first White House tenure, Trump may not have spoken softly, but he wielded an enormous stick.

On his orders, the US military stripped ISIS of its territorial holdings and dispatched its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, to hell.

He set the Iranian regime back on its heels, suffocating under crippling US sanctions and adrift after the death of terrorist general Qassem Soleimani, whom Trump sent to join al-Baghdadi.

And despite his political opponents’ claims of “Russian collusion,” Vladimir Putin didn’t indulge his expansionist appetite until Trump left office.

The 45th president projected strength, and America’s enemies feared him as a result.

At the outset of Trump’s second term, though, he seemed to be flirting with isolationism.

He praised Putin, feuded with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, sought a misguided nuclear deal with Iran and appointed questionable characters to key national security positions.

Now all that appears to have been a passing phase.

After it became clear that Tehran was toying with Trump at the negotiating table, he took matters into his own hands — as he’s doing with Russia now.

“We get a lot of bulls–t thrown at us by Putin,” the president observed during a cabinet meeting Tuesday.
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Russia is likely to remain a problem as Putin continues to pursue his expansive dream.  Putin took advantage of Biden's weakness, and he is not going to willingly go back to his old policies.  Trump's response to Iran has significantly weakened the Mullahs' expansionist agenda.  Russia is likely to be a more difficult situation, although that country is still a shell of its Cold War power.