Thursday, December 29, 2016

State Department Worried Trump Is Going to Be a Foreign Policy Madman | Alternet

Foreign policy is a tricky beast for any new president, at any time. But 2016 presents some particular international challenges: ISIS, Syria, Russia and the Ukraine, Russia and Syria, China and Iran (to name just a few). When a new president is on the way, traditional adversaries might test the waters a bit by, say, seizing a U.S. unmanned research drone. Just to see what happens. It's a period of uncertainty for the foreign policy establishment, an establishment that relies entirely upon norms, rules of engagement that have been agreed upon, protocol. And here comes Trump, freaking the hell out of everybody....
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/state-department-worried-trump-going-be-foreign-policy-madman


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