“The establishment is apoplectic. In my career, I’ve never seen them so downcast and so convinced that our leader is making mistake after mistake,” said Lyle Goldstein of the reshuffling of the longtime American overseas playbook. He’s the director of the China Initiative at Brown University’s Watson School of International and Public Affairs.
“I do agree Trump’s making a lot of mistakes. However, I have some sympathy for his skepticism of alliances. It’s obvious that one reason the United States has fallen behind in so many indicators of living standards is that we are carrying much more of the burden than other countries,” said Goldstein, who also serves as director of the Asia Program at the Washington think tank Defense Priorities, which argues for a smaller global U.S. military footprint.
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