I call your attention to a good column in the New York Post by Martin Gurri, a former CIA official who is not even a little anti-Trump. Gurri begins thus:
At the start of his second term, President Trump surveyed the slowly rotting swamp that was the post-Cold War landscape, and he did not like what he saw.He has determined to scour it clean of dangerous attachments, conditions, and — as we now know — regimes the president considers to be a legacy of past American weakness.
His ultimate objective? A world open for business that realistically reflects the preponderance of American economic and military power.
Gurri follows with an itemization of the feckless responses of our supposed major allies. He concludes this way:
The decline of the democracies, no matter how artfully camouflaged, has brought about the opposite of peace. Cowardice and weakness are a poor place to search for rules. Entropy isn’t order.
And like it or not, for good or harm, Trump will bestride the world over the next three years seeking high-risk but consequential outcomes rather than polite fictions.
Hat tip to Sasha Stone for the link, she liked it as do I.
