Trump's foreign policy ensures growing frustrations
Trump's foreign policy ensures growing frustrations
Every president believes that they can change the world - Donald Trump has an even greater feeling of personal omnipotence than his younger predecessors. But for the 47th president it is not as hoped. Trump may put pressure on technology laws and try to manipulate institutions such as Harvard University and judge through government powers, but some world leaders are more difficult to blackmail.
The challenge by Putin
Again and again Trump is ignored and humiliated by the Russian President Vladimir Putin, who defends himself against the US tests to end the war in Ukraine. Russian media now describe Trump as the self -confident speaker who always gives way back and never enforces consequences.
misunderstandings in trade policy
Trump was convinced that he could form China according to his will by opposing the leader Xi Jinping in the trade war. But he misunderstood Chinese politics. The one that an authoritarian can never do in Beijing is to submit to a US president. US officials are now frustrated , that China has not fulfilled his obligations to de -escalation the trade conflict.
disappointments in the Middle East
As with China, Trump also had to withdraw with the European Union in the customs war. The commentator of the Financial Times, Robert Armstrong, brought the president to the white glow when he shaped the term taco-handel Always Chickens Out ”(Trump always gives up).
accepted, Trump was on the same side as Benjamin Netanyahu. After all, in his first term, he offered the Israeli Prime Minister quite everything he wanted. But now that he tries to convey peace in the Middle East, Trump realizes that the Gaza conflicts for Netanyahus political career is existential, similar to the Ukraine conflict for Putin. Trump's ambitions for an Iranian nuclear agreement also frustrate the Israeli plans to take advantage of a strategic advantage to proceed militarily against Iranian reactors.
The reality of the powerful
In contrast to the shorter, transactional efforts of American presidents,powerful leaders pursue their own ideas of national interest that exist in a parallel reality and are based on different historical and current timelines. Most are not susceptible to personal appeals without a repayment offer. After Trump's efforts, the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj and the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office, the attraction of the White House disappears.
Trump's illusions
Trump spent months on the election campaign path, while he bragged that his “very good relationship” to Putin or XI the depths of geopolitical and economic problems between the global powers that may be insoluble would magically solve.
He is truly not the first US president who suffers from such illusions. President George W. Bush once looked into the eyes of the Kremlin Tyrant and "got a feeling for his soul". President Barack Obama regarded Russia as a decadent regional power and once described Putin as the "bored boy at the very back in the classroom". That was not good when this bored boy annexed the Crimea.
The dizziness of fate
In general, the President of the 21st century acted as if they were men of fate. Bush took office with the decision not to act as a global police officer. But the attacks of September 11, 2001 made him exactly for that. He began wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which the United States won, but lost peace. His failed goal in the second term to democratize the Arab world was unsuccessful.Obama tried to do penance for the global war and traveled to Egypt to tell the Muslims that it was time for a "new beginning". His early presidency pulsed with the feeling that his charisma and unique origin would be a global elixir in itself.
Joe Biden traveled around the world and announced that "America back" was after he had thrown Trump out of the White House. But four years later, partly because of his own catastrophic decision to run for a second term, America-or at least the internationalist post-war version-had disappeared again. And Trump was back.
Trump's heir and the loss of influence
Trump's “America First” populism is based on the assumption that the United States has been ripped off for decades, not to mention that its alliances and the design of global capitalism have made it the most powerful nation in the history of our planet. While he is staging himself as a strong figure that must obey everyone, he wastes this inheritance and smashes the soft power of the USA - that is, the ability to convince - through his aggressive occurrence.
The first four months of the Trump presidency, characterized by threats with tariffs, warnings of a US territorial expansion in Canada and Greenland as well as the hollowing out of global humanitarian aid programs, show that the rest of the world also has a voice in the event. So far, the leaders in China, Russia, Israel, Europe and Canada seem to have come to the assessment that Trump is not as powerful as he thinks that there is no price for his resistance or that their own domestic conditions are necessary.
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