Monday, January 26, 2026

Explaining Trump's Baffling Foreign Policy

Stacie Goddard and Abraham L. Newman, two political science professors, give the most understandable explanation of Trump's moves on the international stage: neoroyalism. A policy of taking from the many and giving to the few. They explain the few in this "new world order" are Trump his pals and the many is us.

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"Wellesley College's Stacie Goddard and Georgetown University's Abraham Newman call this emerging order "neo-royalism," and describe it as a global system dominated by rivalries between a small group of leaders and allied "hyper-elites," all looking to gain wealth or status." ð§¾ is.gd/NhkP1M[image or embed]

-- Pam Spaulding (@pamspaulding.bsky.social) Jan 10, 2026 at 11:33 AM

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#1 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-01-26 08:44 AM

To the extent that there is anything rational about Trump's foreign policy, whatever he does is intended to cement his position as warlord and dictator.

In other words, the same as his domestic policy.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-26 10:10 AM

Once you accept he is a Russian tool meant to kickoff a civil war and collapse the dollar it's brilliance on the part of his handlers.

#4 | Posted by 2020Rocks at 2026-01-26 01:37 PM

Dummkopf Trumpf, American oligarch and Kremlin asset, is in league with Russian oligarchs and Middle Eastern oil despots. The writer calls them "hyper-elites."

This is the perfect example of the time-honored struggle between the masses versus the wealthy.

This Manichean conflict was previously softened by the US social safety network and a framework for advancement into the next economic class.

The clumsiness of the Trumpf junta and the oligarchs in stripping away the safety nets and mechanisms for life-improvement have exposed the US for what it has always been: A Potemkin Village.

The battle is, and has always been, Us versus Them.



#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-26 01:54 PM

Yes, peace in the Middle East really sucks and Venezuelans are over joyed that they are free. TDS really runs deep when creating peace is a problem.

#7 | Posted by fishpaw at 2026-01-26 04:15 PM

Nice try, fishpud.

Israeli Strikes in Gaza Kill 11, Including Three Journalists

www.nytimes.com

#8 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-26 04:23 PM

#7 TDS?

I think we can all agree that Trump is deranged.

Good call, fishpud.

#9 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-26 04:26 PM

I'll never understand the hardworking American taxpayer sending billions of dollars every year to a wealthy, nuclear-armed Israel, which offers universal world class healthcare to all its residents, a social security system ranked at "B+" compared to America which is ranked at "C+", and a GNI of $52,940, almost exactly on par with Germany ($54,960).

How this generous American largesse to Israel helps a school teacher in the South Bronx, a truck driver in Oklahoma, a struggling farmer in Mississippi, a homeless person in Detroit, a police officer in Sacramento, a plumber in Chicago, a single mother of three buying food for her children from the Dollar Store, a court clerk in Alabama having trouble paying rent, or a firefighter in Boston saving money to send his kids to MIT, I have absolutely no clue.

Keine ahnung.


#10 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-26 04:58 PM

it's easy to explain...

he kicked the elites in davos right in the nuts.

both parties potus in the past went there and kissed their nuts.

---from the start he put them on notice....the brain dead ------ wasn't potus

anymore and that they were not gonna just get 400 billion from the US taxpayer

anymore....unaccounted for.

--Greenland....we've got bases there and we need more....simple conclusion.

--I talked to new neighbor....been here for 6 years from Venezuela....about to

become a US citizen.........and when I asked about Maduro....she began to cry...for her

brothers and sisters there now.....and free of maduro....

#11 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-01-26 05:22 PM

AND I'VE GOT TEN BUCKS SAYS.............that just like the citizens slaughtered

by your illegal animals.....you don't give a godam ( rhymes with TRUCK )

if her siblings have to live under a brutal dictator or not...

scum bag idiots.

#12 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-01-26 05:25 PM

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with booschit.
W.C. Fields

Which is sort of where we're at...

I bet this would go away if they showed the Epstein files...

#13 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2026-01-27 12:20 PM

"To better understand the president's foreign policy, one must study the behavior of small children. ... Intellectual honesty does not seem to be the hallmark of this administration's foreign policy. A more helpful way of understanding the president's whims is to think of him as a small child who develops an obsessive fixation on a new toy before losing all interest. You can wait him out or try to appease him, but you can't talk him into a rational assessment of cost versus benefit, or assume his stated preference will hold true for very long."

Jonathan Chait

#14 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2026-01-27 07:42 PM

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