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Home / Grand strategy / LTE: The Price of Primacy
Grand strategy, Diplomacy

August 19, 2025

LTE: The Price of Primacy

By Daniel DePetris

In “Dispensable Nation” (July/August 2025), Kori Schake makes a compelling case against U.S. President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, which she argues is jeopardizing the rules-based global order the United States crafted after World War II. But Schake’s description goes too far. Despite Trump’s tirades against allies, his administration’s foreign policy remains quite conventional.

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