Some on the left political spectrum in the US are suspicious of
Trump's foreign policy, and for good reason. US imperialism's war agenda
is non-negotiable. Trump's status as a billionaire champion of American
(white) exceptionalism does not necessarily breed confidence in Trump’s
rhetorical gestures to scale back key points in US foreign policy. His
Administration should be resisted at every turn for current and future
war provocations against Iran and China. His Administration should be
held accountable for the deaths of thirty people in Yemen during the
late January Commando raid just as Obama's Administration should have
been held accountable for killing thousands of people in Yemen,
Pakistan, and Afghanistan by drone strike over the course of eight
years.
But the anti-war movement died the day Obama was elected, leaving the
contradictions that were brought to the fore throughout the
Presidential electoral cycle unaddressed. One does not have to support
Trump or refrain from struggle against the GOP to recognize that Trump's
rhetorical gestures against regime change in the Middle East and Russia
came from somewhere. These statements are the product of a rapidly
changing world. In this world, the US can no longer call itself the only
most influential or dominant global power. Russia's geopolitical
significance, China's unprecedented economic growth, and the stagnation
of the US economy have forever changed the international order of
things.
-- Danny Haiphong's "Trump's Foreign Policy: Continuity or Break?" (BLACK AGENDA REPORT).