BerlinFokus<p>"The <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> team, taking its cue from the <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/president" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>president</span></a>, is trying to pursue two <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/ContradictoryVisions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ContradictoryVisions</span></a> at the same time — to maintain <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a>’s status as the world’s leading power while also trying to scale down its international commitments. They want to simultaneously <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/dominate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dominate</span></a> the <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/world" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>world</span></a> and <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/withdraw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>withdraw</span></a> from it."</p><p><a href="https://www.vox.com/on-the-right-newsletter/405758/signal-leak-trump-vance-hegseth-foreign-policy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vox.com/on-the-right-newslette</span><span class="invisible">r/405758/signal-leak-trump-vance-hegseth-foreign-policy</span></a></p><p>Or, put differently, Trump is <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Stalin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stalin</span></a> and everybody around him is trying to guess what he wants.</p><p>☎️</p>