Internationalism, the Donald Trump Way

If a NATO member doesn’t spend enough on its own defense, Donald Trump said in February, he’d ‘encourage’ Russia ‘to do whatever the hell they want’ to those ‘delinquent’ countries.

The Republican frontrunner for the US presidency, as usual, didn’t apologize or back away from his comment, which defies seven decades of US support for NATO allies. In the face of criticism from politicians in the United States and Europe, he simply repeated his threat.

But Trump’s words must not be mistaken as a sign that he will pursue a strict isolationist foreign policy in a potential second term. If Donald Trump wins in November, he will most likely continue to impose his own brand of militarism and his own version of internationalism.

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