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Trump’s ‘America First’ Approach Hurts Americans February 01, 2025

The freezing of U.S. foreign aid has stopped work in most military and security assistance programs, including in Ukraine and parts of the Middle East....

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This Is America First. The World Had Better Take Notice January 28, 2025

With Donald Trump back in the White House, leaders across the world are sitting up. They will have to get used to something very new: an America unembarrassed about putting its own national interests first, and specifically in making the security of ...

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The Fight To Define ‘America First’ Foreign Policy January 28, 2025

Will proponents of U.S. retreat guide Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon?...

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Trump’s 'America First' Is Not Realism January 22, 2025

Some observers have approvingly claimed that the second Trump administration heralds a realist revival in American foreign policy. Writing in Foreign Affairs, Robert O’Brien, who served as national security adviser in the first Trump administration, ...

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Stefanik Will Deliver on Trump’s America First Agenda at the UN January 21, 2025

For four years, we have seen the consequences of weak leadership in the White House: a world rife with conflict, a foreign policy that has emboldened adversaries like Communist China and Iran and abandoned allies like Israel further degrading America...

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The Impact of Trump’s Re-Election for Latin America January 20, 2025

Trump’s “America First” rhetoric could significantly impact the region, potentially creating an opening for Europeans to strengthen their ties and influence there...

Starving the Dragon January 16, 2025

President-elect Donald Trump has a broad popular mandate to thwart Chinese economic warfare against the homeland. ...

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Trump’s ‘Americas First’ Plan Isn’t All Bad January 14, 2025

Donald Trump isn’t even president yet, and he’s already giving US foreign policy a 19th century feel. The president-elect has spent the weeks before his inauguration promoting an epic agenda of territorial expansion in the Western Hemisphere — and th...

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Who’s Afraid of America First? January 10, 2025

To many countries in Europe, the return of Donald Trump to the White House is seen as a momentous, almost apocalyptic, shift that is likely to disrupt alliances and upend economic relations. Meanwhile, American adversaries such as China, Iran, North ...

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The Folly of America First September 23, 2024

In his 2017 inauguration speech, Donald Trump made a vow to the American people: “A new vision will govern our land, from this day forward, it’s going to be only America first.”...

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America Wants To Be an “Arsenal of Democracy” September 20, 2024

In a December 2023 interview with Radio Free Europe, Washington Post foreign affairs columnist David Ignatius said, “Europeans worry whether America [is] reverting to a neo-isolationist, anti-globalist, America-first country.” ...

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What Does “America First” Actually Mean? August 16, 2024

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The Case for a More Strategic U.S. Foreign Policy August 15, 2024

As the nation focuses on the coming presidential election, the foreign policy landscape surrounding the United States is in disarray. Israel is bracing for a retaliatory Iranian attack following their killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeah...

'America First' Right Coalesces To Change Foreign Policy May 25, 2024

"The people we elect to government should run the government, and their first and sole moral duty is to the citizens of this nation, not any other one," former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said at the "What a Foreign Policy for t...

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The ‘America First’ Caucus Forces a Moment of Truth May 18, 2024

The United States Congress took six months to approve a supplemental spending bill that includes aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. The drama, legislative maneuvering, and threats to remove a second speaker of the House of Representatives have left ...

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America First Are Not Dirty Words February 14, 2024

Donald Trump says it and the European establishment goes convulsive, as ever. ...

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