Diplomatic Circles

The playbook is back in Washington

Trump campaigned as an isolationist, but he’s discovered that a little sabre-rattling abroad yields instant popularity at home.

U.S. President Donald Trump, pictured, is surrounded by people who still believe in the traditional U.S. foreign policy playbook (even if he doesn't), and they now know how to press his buttons, argues Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of Gage Skidmore

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

May 3, 2017

LONDON, U.K.—It was striking, in United States media coverage of Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office, that most observers noted with relief that his foreign policy has turned out to be less radical than they feared. In fact, it’s not radical at all. He has already fired cruise missiles at ...

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