Efforts to describe an underlying doctrine describing the Trump second term foreign policy all fail, including the administration’s own National Security Strategy from November 2025.
The war with Iran contradicts the stated priorities in the NSS, and are simply the outgrowth of Trump’s perception of self-interest.
Frankly Fukuyama is the blog and YouTube channel of Francis Fukuyama, Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
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