MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: Trump world order
A new statement of national purpose recalls an imperial moment
In today’s letter: We finally have Donald Trump’s grand vision for the world down in writing. What kind of world would it make, exactly?
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THE GIST: The Donroe Doctrine
Last week, when we talked with Ruth Ben-Ghiat, she posited that the point of Donald Trump’s approach to diplomacy was to dismantle American influence abroad, to retreat to an older, “spheres of influence” model of diplomacy — the kind of thing the pundits had taken to calling the “Donroe Doctrine.”
An important new document suggests that she was right on target.