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2016-04-29 Home Front: Politix
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Trump’s major foreign policy speech alarms American allies
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 [Dhaka Tribune] Donald Trump’s first major foreign policy address alarmed American allies, who view the Republican front runner’s repeated invocation of an "America first" agenda as a threat to retreat from the world.
| I can see how Mr. Trump's rhetoric might lend the impression that the free ride might be coming to an end... |
While most governments were careful not to comment publicly on a speech by a US presidential candidate, Germany’s foreign minister veered from that protocol to express concern at Trump’s wording.
"I can only hope that the election campaign in the USA does not lack the perception of reality," Frank-Walter Steinmeier said.
"The world’s security architecture has changed and it is no longer based on two pillars alone. It cannot be conducted unilaterally," he said of foreign policy in a post-Cold War world. "No American president can get round this change in the international security architecture.... ’America first’ is actually no answer to that."
| Until Germany will ante up, I'm not going to concern myself with the comments of their foreign minister. |
Carl Bildt, a former Swedish prime minister and foreign minister who served as UN envoy to the Balkans in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, said he heard Trump’s speech as "abandoning both democratic allies and democratic values".
"Trump had not a word against Russian aggression in Ukraine, but plenty against past US support for democracy in Egypt," Bildt said on Twitter, referring to lines from Trump’s speech that criticised the Barack B.O. regime for withdrawing support for autocrat Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
during a 2011 uprising.
’First isolationist candidate’
Trump’s speech, uncharacteristically read out from a teleprompter, seemed aimed at showing a more serious side of a politician who has said he intends to act more "presidential" after months of speaking mainly off the cuff.
He promised "a disciplined, deliberate and consistent foreign policy" in contrast to the "reckless, rudderless and aimless" policies of Obama and former Secretary of State  Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another James Baker ...
, Trump’s likely Democratic opponent if he secures the Republican nomination.
The speech included no dramatic new policy proposals that might generate headlines, such as his past calls to bar Muslims from entering the US soil or to build a wall on the frontier with Mexico.
Where he was specific, like rejecting the terms of last year’s nuclear deal with Iran, calling for more investment in missile defence in Europe and accusing the B.O. regime of tepid support for Israel, he was firmly within the Republican mainstream.
A major theme - that more NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
allies should spend at least 2% of their economic output on defence - is one that has also been taken up by the B.O. regime itself, including repeatedly during the president’s visit to Europe last week.
Nevertheless, Trump’s rhetoric raised alarm in allied countries that still rely on the superpower for defence, particularly the phrase "America first", used in the 1930s by isolationists that sought to keep the United States out of World War II.
Former South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Sung-han, who now teaches at the Korea University in Seoul, said Trump would be "the first isolationist to be US presidential candidate, while in the post-war era all the US presidents have been to varying degrees internationalists."
| South Korea should work on cutting a deal with China that divides North Korea between them, with an understanding that China will leave the ROK alone and the ROK will ask the US to move most of its presence away. |
In the Arab world, where governments and their citizens are also alarmed at the rise of non-Arab Iran, Trump’s strong rejection of the deal with Tehran is a popular position that would have been embraced if expressed by another candidate.
But Trump’s previous call to ban Muslims from the United States has made him anathema in the region. Emirati political analyst Abdulkhaleq Abdullah said no speech would be enough to salvage his reputation there: "He’s a racist and a chauvinist who will never be widely welcomed in the Arab world." 
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