Tuesday, 22 July 2025
Which is Donald Trump's foreign policy priority?
Donald Trump might be the most powerful American president since Ronald Reagan but, despite his overwhelming presence in terms of policy and action in the United States (the Republicans in Congress are in thrall to him), he hasn't managed to achieve a major foreign policy triumph since coming to power on January 20. Ok, the B-2 bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites was heavy stuff and was the boldest of all military statements to the ayatollahs, but Iran's foreign minister is still insisting that his country will continue to pursue nuclear enrichment as one of its main tasks. He admits the bombings caused serious damage but apparently he is confident Iranian scientists and engineers can get back to enrichment in due course. So the Trump bombing hasn't broken Tehran. As for Gaza and Ukraine, the wars are continuing relentlessly and Trump appears to have realised that all those promises before he was elected just cann't be honoured. No one is stopping Benjamin Netanyahu from killing Palestinian civilians and destroying their homes, and Vladimir Putin is ignoring the man in the White House. He carries on doing what he does, whatever Trump says to him. Now you havey to ask what Trump wants to achieve on the foreign stage. Hi initial priority was the war in Ukraine. But that hasn't worked out as he planned, so has Ukraine slipped down the priority list? If so, what is top of his wish list? Not Iran because Trump will feel he has done enough for the moment to make the ayatollahs wary. Trade tariff , of course, are a big number for him, and maybe that's what he wants to focus on more than anything else. When was the last time he rang Netanyahu and told him to stop the war NOW.
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