What to expect after John Bolton’s exit
John Bolton’s successor as national security adviser is unlikely to change America’s foreign policy
FOR THREE years President Donald Trump’s foreign policy has seesawed between threats to bomb enemies and moon-shot diplomacy. The president has flirted with nuclear war with North Korea, only to become the first sitting president to step onto its soil. He has strangled Iran’s economy and ordered bombers into the air, then offered talks. A troop surge in Afghanistan gave way to a proposed summit with the Taliban.
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United States September 14th 2019
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