Source: The American Conservative
by Doug Bandow
“Even as he underwrites and wages multiple wars, proposes a gargantuan $500 billion increase in military outlays, and plans to build his own Arc de Triomphe, President Donald Trump apparently believes himself to be a man of peace. He has become a classic example of historian Lord Acton’s dictum in action: ‘Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.’ As Trump completes the first year of his second term, he is demonstrating that his first term was merely a playful preview. This time he has gotten serious, with new wars and threats of war multiplying, sometimes on an almost daily basis. He believes that there are no meaningful limits — legal, institutional, constitutional, or even moral, other than his own musings — on loosing the dogs of war with the most powerful military on earth. This makes him potentially the most dangerous U.S. president yet.” (01/15/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/on-foreign-policy-trump-2-0-is-dangerously-unrestrained/