Failed foreign relations rebranded: Washington’s new slogan sells retreat as strength, and the vacuum is already filling
Every fading power eventually learns to describe its retreat as strength and maturity. A new book promoted by The Epoch Times offers the latest version of that story: “partners not dependents.” In “Trump’s New World Re-Order,” released Oct. 20, author Rod D. Martin argues that President Donald Trump’s second-term foreign policy is not isolationism but a rational re-ordering of priorities that extends American influence. It is a flattering narrative, and it arrives just as Turkey pockets a Libyan maritime deal, U.N. peacekeepers prepare to leave Lebanon, and allies quietly shop for other protectors. Before swallowing the slogan, readers should ask a colder question: when Washington screws up foreign relations, who ultimately steps forward, and on whose terms will we be abiding by when American influence actually fades?
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