Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
by Trudy Rubin
“A new foreign policy era has begun even before Donald Trump takes office. It will be quickly defined by how the president-elect deals with Moscow’s war on Ukraine. The post-Cold War era of America as sole superpower has evolved into a multipolar world where the U.S. confronts an alliance of autocracies that believe liberal democracy is a dying political system — even as many Americans have lost faith in their institutions. Joe Biden will be the last U.S. president who came of age under the idealistic aegis of John F. Kennedy’s, ‘Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.’ Trump, meanwhile, has given every signal that he finds the strongman system of governance far more appealing. That is why his pledge to end the war in Ukraine ‘within 24 hours’ will define the new era.” (12/30/24)
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/ukraine-donald-trump-russia-putin-peace-20241230.html