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February 9, 2024

Pendulum of GOP foreign policy is swinging away from the neoconservatives of the Reagan Era

Perhaps the new strain of foreign policy emerging on the right is neither isolationist nor realist. The Republicans pioneering this vision tend to be hawkish on Latin America, Iran, and China, and also encourage close US-Israel ties. At the same time, they are “more skeptical of liberal internationalist insistence that our security is tied up in places like Ukraine,” the policy director at the think tank Defense Priorities, Benjamin Friedman, tells the Sun. “I’d call it Jacksonian, with a lot of Trump influence.”

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