Middle East…..
Ukraine….
Europe….
China….
Iran….
Trade….
All of the above HAVE had no traction for the American President and America …from an ole timer, in a ‘hurry’ , that IS reverse wired, and NOT able to concentrate more that 10 seconds or so….?….
America HAS a President that CANNOT get a grip on the outside world…
Something he doesn’t understand…
And doesn’t much care about…
Even if it DOES relate to America’s Life and Well Being…
When it comes to confronting global conflicts, President Trump is a man in a hurry.
Even before his inauguration, the president claimed credit for what he called an “EPIC cease-fire” in Gaza. He has raced to get Ukraine and Russia to quickly embrace a pause in fighting. And with Iran, Mr. Trump wants an agreement within two months to prevent Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon.
It is the foreign policy version of the president’s “flood the zone” approach in Washington, where he and his lieutenants have used blitzkrieg-like tactics to dismantle the bureaucracy, consolidate executive power and attack his political enemies. On the world stage, too, Mr. Trump has embraced a hurry-up foreign policy approach designed to quickly resolve the disputes he inherited.
But his diplomatic impatience is now running headfirst into the complexity of war and peace, raising questions about the durability of what he has achieved so far. The cease-fire between Gaza and Israel has collapsed. Mr. Trump’s proposal for an immediate 30-day cease-fire was rejected by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. And an Iran nuclear agreement — not unlike the one he withdrew from during his first term in office — seems to remain far over the horizon despite his push for a speedy deal.
“Trump’s MO is to always be in a hurry, looking for the transaction, for the temporary, for the now,” said Aaron David Miller, a former Middle East negotiator and a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
“American foreign policy — Ukraine, Gaza, Iran — they’re not measured in terms of administrations. It’s generational time,” Mr. Miller said. He added that rushing a solution was risky, “because he’s in such a hurry to get results, he’s sort of misdiagnosing the problem.”…
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Lawrence Freedman, an emeritus professor of war studies at King’s College in London, said the problem with the president’s desire for urgency is that it shortchanges the detailed and often laborious work usually required for a long-term solution to wars.
“He thinks if he blusters enough, then people will sort of fall away and that you can get on to the stuff you really want to do,” Mr. Freedman said. “But because it’s not based on a serious assessment of the situation — of the problems at hand — it doesn’t really work.”
Mr. Miller said Mr. Trump is less interested in the long-term solution than the short-term political benefit he gets from announcing a diplomatic achievement.
“You’ve got an extraordinarily impatient impulsive person,” he said, “where speed, frankly, matters more than the policy.”…
Note…
Slowly other countries ARE Learning to wait the American President out and plan to go elsewhere….
The next American President WILL have to spend time ‘undoing’ Trump & Co.’s actions at home and abroad….
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