As president-elect Donald Trump As Trump prepares to return to the White House next month, what kind of foreign policy can Americans expect during his second term in the Oval Office?
J. Michael Waller, senior strategist at the Center for Security Policy, suggested during an interview with Fox News Digital that Trump would pursue an “America first foreign policy,” describing Biden's approach as “America last.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell He calls on the soon-to-be commander-in-chief to dramatically increase military spending in a bid to build the country's “hard power.”
The long-serving lawmaker also warned against an isolationist approach to foreign policy, stressing in an article Foreign affairs And that “the answer to four years of weakness should not be four years of isolation.”
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., takes a question from a reporter during a news conference following the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on November 19, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnick/Getty Images)
“Trump would be wise to build his foreign policy on the enduring cornerstone of American leadership: hard power. To reverse the neglect of military power, his administration must commit to a significant and sustained increase in defense spending, and generational investments in the defense industrial base. “Urgent reforms,” McConnell stressed. “To accelerate U.S. development of new capabilities and expand access for allies and partners.”
He added: “To pretend that the United States can focus on only one threat at a time, or that its credibility is divisible, or that it is able to ignore distant chaos as irrelevant, is to ignore its global interests and the global designs of its adversaries.” Argue.
Waller, who wrote the book “Big Information,” explained that an “America First” foreign policy does not mean isolationism.
“This means that the United States defines its national interests very strictly,” he noted, without mentioning that every crisis around the world is “of vital and existential importance to our country.”
Waller opined in Foreign Affairs that McConnell was seeking “to maintain a bipartisan consensus on existing US global commitments that are beyond our means… without even stepping back to reassess what is truly in our national interests and how we can best marshal our resources to ensure them.”
Fox News Digital attempted to reach out for comment from McConnell, but did not receive a response.
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Trump took advantage of the senator. Marco RubioA Republican candidate from Florida for Secretary of State, a choice Waller called “a really good choice.”
Regarding the current one Ukraine–Russia In the conflict, Rubio said the United States is funding a “stalemate war.”
Trump called for a ceasefire.
“There must be an immediate ceasefire and negotiations must begin,” he said in a post. “Too many lives are being lost needlessly, too many families destroyed, and if this continues, it could turn into something much bigger, and much worse.” On social truth.
Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, December 10, 2024. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Trump also called for the release of hostages in the Middle East, warning in a post on Truth Social that if they are not released by the time he takes office, “there will be everything to pay for many in the Middle East, and those who live in this region.” . “Those responsible for committing these atrocities against humanity will be hit harder than anyone else in the long history of the United States of America,” he declared.
