{"id":306136,"date":"2025-04-02T06:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T06:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=306136"},"modified":"2025-04-06T07:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T07:22:10","slug":"trumps-foreign-policy-moves-starting-to-look-like-that-of-a-desperate-dying-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=306136","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s foreign policy moves starting to look like that of a desperate, dying empire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leo Hohmann \u2013 leohohmann.substack.com April 1, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The United States of America elected Donald Trump in a landslide victory over a hapless opponent last November, and immediately the mantra \u201cWe\u2019re Back\u201d started reverberating across the land.<\/p>\n

People were jubilant.<\/p>\n

Some held family or neighborhood \u201cvictory parties.\u201d<\/p>\n

You could hardly blame them after four years of the most absent, most inept president in U.S. history. Biden handed Trump a big mess. Probably on purpose.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump, never one to be bashful or to wince before the spotlight, fanned the flames. He immediately started talking about \u201cthe dawn of a new Golden Age of America.\u201d<\/p>\n

He started off with a bang, publicly signing executive order after executive order. His fans swooned.<\/p>\n

But going on three months in, reality is starting to take hold.<\/p>\n

What we are seeing is that roughly half of his most meaningful executive orders have been overturned or at least delayed by the courts.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve seen no meaningful action from the Republican-held Congress to codify any of the Trump agenda.<\/p>\n

In another six months the campaigning for the 2026 midterms will be in high gear and we will all wonder what of any lasting value we have to show for all the fanfare. Remember, Trump\u2019s executive orders, even the ones that get by the courts, can be overturned on DAY ONE of the next presidency.<\/p>\n

The question is this: Will Trump himself get frustrated and seek to distract the nation from his lack of progress on his domestic agenda by taking the nation to war overseas?<\/p>\n

This past weekend, Trump started showing signs of frustration.<\/p>\n

His long-touted peace deal with Russia\u2019s Putin and Ukraine\u2019s Zelensky is going nowhere. Neither side seems to want to stop fighting, and Trump is learning that you can\u2019t just beat your chest as the \u201cKing\u201d of America and browbeat foreign dictators into accepting your \u201cdeal.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Trump gets frustrated, he takes to social media. And sometimes he even dials up the corporate media to vent his frustrations there. On Sunday, he called NBC News and spoke with Christine Welker. He told her he was \u201cangry\u201d and \u201cpissed off\u201d with Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin for not agreeing to his peace deal with Ukraine. He also felt the need to repeat his previously mentioned desire for a \u201cthird term.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, after saying he would slap Russia with secondary tariffs on all Russian oil if Putin didn\u2019t come to his senses and agree to see the world (including his own border area) through Trump\u2019s America-centric lens, he moved on to talking about Iran.<\/p>\n

Trump said he would carpet-bomb Iran and bring hellfire and brimstone, \u201cthe likes of which they\u2019ve never seen before,\u201d if they didn\u2019t agree to his deal to give up their nuclear program. Iran gave no indication that it would comply with his demands and on Monday we read that Iran was loading its missiles and priming them for take-off.<\/p>\n

Americans did not vote for another Mideast war. That is probably the last thing America can afford right now. And the last thing it needs. Trump said it himself. He said he wanted to be the \u201cPeace President.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you recall, the rationale used to avoid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was that it would only serve to give Hamas time to rearm and regroup. Israel had Hamas on the ropes and needed to finish them off, we were told.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s interesting that this rationale does not apply to the Russia-Ukraine war. Trump\u2019s push for a 30-day ceasefire makes no sense from the Russian perspective. Putin says forget the 30-day temporary truce. He wants to address the core causes of the war and negotiate a truly \u201clasting peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

And yet, here we go. Trump\u2019s foreign policy seems geared along the lines of, make peace with me or I will bomb the hell out of you. Or at the very least, I will wage economic war on you until you succumb to my wishes.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sorry, Donald, but this isn\u2019t the art of the deal. You can\u2019t browbeat the world into submission.<\/p>\n

Perhaps Trump has a secret deal with Putin whereby he criticizes Putin in public while telling him in private he won\u2019t interfere with Russia\u2019s drive to finish off Ukraine. But if that were the case, why is Trump continuing to fund Ukraine\u2019s war effort? He restarted the funding about two weeks after cutting it off, a fact most Americans I talk to are still not aware of.<\/p>\n

And even if there is a secret deal, I still don\u2019t think it\u2019s helpful in the long run for a world leader to use subterfuge to the extent that no country can take him at his word. That can only end badly when the deceptions and misdirections finally get exposed. Now you are exposed as a paper tiger who got called on the bluff.<\/p>\n

The fact that any U.S. president would make such statements only shows signs of desperation and, in my opinion, weakness. It smacks of the playground bully, who always threatens more than he can deliver. He begs for attention with bombastic statements and basks for a time in the fa\u00e7ade of the tough guy image, until someone takes him up on his challenge, calls his bluff and delivers an unexpected crushing blow.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s new foreign policy tactic is begging for someone, some country, to step up and put down the bully, hit him right at his weakest point. Which is often the most obvious place. Right in the center of his face! Perhaps his exposed jugular? Perhaps a gut punch that incapacitates him just long enough to then deliver the crushing blow? Maybe an EMP attack followed by a strike of an overwhelming hypersonic nature?<\/p>\n

Trump wants Western peacekeepers in Ukraine. That is a major snag for Putin, mostly because of Russia\u2019s history and distrust of Western countries like France and Britain (both have fought wars with Russia in the past). Putin\u2019s idea of having the United Nations place peacekeepers in Ukraine is also stupid. How did that work out in Rwanda?<\/p>\n

The only way to solve the problem is to back away and let Russia and Ukraine fight it out. That will provide the only organic environment for a lasting peace, and even that may not last forever. But Russia is oh so close to achieving that goal, and that\u2019s why Putin doesn\u2019t want any part of Trump\u2019s \u201cpeace\u201d deal. He believes he can end the war by finishing off his opponent and then accomplish all of his goals, rather than 50 or 75 percent of them. Why would the victor in a war settle on the terms of the loser? This is essentially what Trump is asking Putin to do. Sorry, it doesn\u2019t work that way. Ukraine\u2019s leader, Zelensky, wants to keep fighting, so let him carry on and see how that works out for him.<\/p>\n

Sadly, it\u2019s becoming clear that the U.S. is losing influence in the world. Its dollar is faltering. Its economy is teetering. And its leaders are behaving like those running a dying empire. The U.S. has to stop acting like the biggest, baddest bully on the block, when everyone knows it has a soft underbelly.<\/p>\n

Because remember: When all else fails, they take you to war.<\/em><\/p>\n

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