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@GottaLaff "When you’re pushing neutral countries toward your primary strategic competitor, when you’re alienating #democratic allies through sheer diplomatic incompetence, when you’re turning areas of #bipartisan consensus into sources of international […] [Original post on newsie.social]

Sub-heading and text from article: The America First Incoherence The fundamental problem is that “America First” as Trump understands it is completely incompatible with the kind of alliance management that effective great power competition requires. You can’t contain China while simultaneously alienating every potential partner through tariffs, immigration restrictions, and general diplomatic incompetence. You can’t build coalitions while treating every relationship as a zero-sum transaction where America must “win” and everyone else must lose. When you’re pushing neutral countries toward your primary strategic competitor, when you’re alienating democratic allies through sheer diplomatic incompetence, when you’re turning areas of bipartisan consensus into sources of international friction—you’re not pursuing “America First” foreign policy. You’re pursuing America Alone foreign policy, which inevitably becomes America Last foreign policy.
sep 1, 2025, 5:34 pm • 0 2

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Laffy @gottalaff.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy

@ZhiZhu America isolated.

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