How Different a Commander in Chief will Trump Be?

Article/Op-Ed in CNN
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Nov. 17, 2024

New America Vice President and ASU Professor of Practice Peter Bergen examines where and how Trump might bring changes to national security/foreign policy:

On the face of it, there are sizable differences in foreign policy between Trump and President Joe Biden. Trump’s isolationist instincts mean that he will build walls around the US — whether physically, at the southern border, or by using tariffs to raise the prices of imports of foreign goods into the country. Trump will also likely take a skeptical line on alliances such as NATO, pull out of international agreements negotiated with dozens of other countries such as the Paris Climate Agreement, and ration or even end US support for Ukraine in the war with Russia.

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