Max Boot: US ‘bully-boy’ foreign policy belongs in the 19th century

Nobody would ever accuse Donald Trump of being a coherent or consistent thinker. But, less than three months into his second term as US president, a recognisable Trump Doctrine is emerging in foreign policy. It can be summed up with these famous words of Thucydides: “The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

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