Here's how to mitigate some of Trump's most dangerous foreign policy instincts | Kenneth Roth

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : But with Trump in the White House, Putin is likely to want more.
59% : Will Trump be known for dispensing with the national interest in his quest for the sugar high of flattery?
52% : Trump wants to let Israel "finish the job", ideally quickly, and told Netanyahu to "do what you have to do".
47% : For reasons that are not wholly understood, Trump has long harbored an unseemly admiration for Vladimir Putin.
46% : Is that what Trump wants?More broadly, Trump needs to decide whether to continue his professed admiration for the world's autocrats.
43% : Biden showed the way toward a smarter trade policy - one built on common values rather than mere competition - that Trump would be wise to continue and expand.
43% : Trump should also have US customs officials pay more attention to Beijing's subterfuges, such as shipping from Xinjiang via other parts of China or even third countries to avoid the presumption.
42% : Trump as Chamberlain would be indifferent to Kyiv's pleas.
39% : Our only hope may be that Trump no longer must worry about re-election.
39% : Israel's war in Gaza will demand a rethink from Trump.
38% : Instead of pandering to - and promoting - the worst instincts of his base, Trump, long preoccupied by his image, may begin to contemplate his legacy.
38% : Trump must decide whether to abandon his reflexive support for Israel in favor of a deal that would indeed be historic.
37% : Trump might even reconsider his instinctive opposition to multilateral endeavors.
36% : During the campaign, Trump played on many Americans' mistaken tendency to equate higher prices from past inflation with ongoing inflation, but they would soon appreciate the difference as prices again soared.
36% : But does Trump really want to defund the World Health Organization again when it is the frontline for our defense against the next pandemic, whether bird flu, mpox, antimicrobial resistance or something as yet unidentified?
34% : Trump contends that tariffs would force more manufacturing to US soil, but a battle of tit-for-tat tariffs would more immediately fuel inflation.
31% : A similar dilemma faces Trump on Iran.
29% : Does Trump really want to be known as the Neville Chamberlain of the 21st century, appeasing a brutal tyrant in the naive hope that he will be sated with a single gulp of ill-gotten territory?
28% : Trump might try to spin it as enabling greater focus on China, which he rightly sees as a threat, but Xi Jinping is likely to read it as a lack of resolve.
28% : Trump may be too self-absorbed to think beyond the self-gratification of the moment.
27% : Trump can hardly trumpet his artful dealmaking when word is out that a round of calculated fawning is all it takes to manipulate his fragile ego.
26% : Trump is likely to stop sending arms to Ukraine and to insist that Kyiv settle for at best a frozen conflict, in effect ceding its occupied eastern territory to Russia.
25% : If Trump will not defend an aspiring democracy on the threshold of the European Union, why would he prevent Beijing from incorporating Taiwan by threatened or actual force?
13% : Is that what Trump wants to be remembered for?Trump mainly sees China as a commercial threat.
12% : If Trump were to revive sanctions, he would virtually invite the prosecutor to abandon political restraints that keep him from charging senior US officials (soon, including Trump) for aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes in Gaza.
10% : Having hiked tariffs during his last presidency (Joe Biden maintained them), Trump now threatens to substantially increase them.
10% : Now, Trump says that Biden has imposed too many restraints on the Israeli prime minister - by pushing him to stop bombing and starving Palestinian civilians - even though Biden refused to use the leverage of conditioning US arms sales and military aid to enforce those demands.
7% : Netanyahu is itching for Trump to join him in a military attack on Iran's nuclear program, but that would risk involving American forces in a regional war that Trump wants to avoid.

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