Trump Enslavement Syndrome - Orange man good. /r/The_Donald and any public demonstration of rabid pro-Trump enthusiasm in spite of all reason.

Trump's foreign policy was tit for tat a continuation of Obama's which was a continuation of Bush II's. If you think otherwise, you haven't studied foreign policy and don't actually give a shit about it. People praising his "peace summit" with the North Koreans most loudly and proudly announce their ignorance, because that was hardly the first time (or second, or third, or fourth) the Norks had a "peace summit" which achieved fuckall and made no real progress but got lots of attention. Similarly, people proposing that Trump had anything to do with the thaw in Israeli-Arab relations in the ME just haven't been paying attention and assume the US is a prism through which all international alliances must necessarily flow.

Best of all were people praising Trump's 'negotiations' with the Taliban who then immediately flipped at Biden's withdrawal into, apparently, being in favor of forever-wars. The Afghanistan withdrawal was perhaps the only meaningful change to US foreign policy since the Bush years, which hardly ameliorates the Biden administration and yet clearly presents a shift away from forever-wars. The Ukraine conflict is far closer to lend-lease (look it up; I know you'll have to) in that much of what the US is 'spending' on Ukraine is in reality old kit we don't use anymore that would be costly to safely dispose of, and the paradigm of foreign policy has shifted away from direct involvement to instead a policy of indirect engagement whereby we protect core regional allies (NATO, the Quad, Israel, etc) through use of either sharp diplomacy or proxy conflicts.

Calling Trump a war criminal is fair if one calls Obama, Bush, and Biden all the same; but otherwise, he's not really uniquely offensive as regards foreign policy.
 
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