In its 100 days in power, Donald Trump He imposed his rhythm, undermined the alliances of the United States, threatened to annex territories and shaken the global geopolitical order as rarely before. But, at the same time, the 78 -year -old American president, who presents himself as a “peacemaker” and hopes to receive The Nobel Peace Prize winner started unprecedented negotiations with Russia and the bitter enemy Iran, with alternate fortunes. From total duties, also against China’s great rival, the Panama channel and Greenland, up to putting Europeans with their shoulders to the wall and cutting foreign aid, the Republican president is carrying out his vision of “America First”.
A clearly unilateralist approach, based solely on the transaction principle, a sort of giving and having diplomat. End of decades of American “soft power” (diplomacy of influence) and questioned the foundations of globalization and free trade. “The Trump administration threw all the old certainties in a blender and has liquefied them,” writes Mark Leonard, director of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), on the organization’s website. However, it is clear that the task is not as easy as this supporter of “peace through strength” could have suggested.
Conflicts (not finished)
Israel resumed the offensive in the Gaza strip and the conflict in Ukraine continues. Perhaps the most dramatic turning point is His rapprochement to Vladimir Putinthat he himself claims to admire. Resuming the contacts with the Russian president, Donald Trump has put an end to his international isolation, even if this means doing it at Kiev expenses. However, the leader of the Kremlin was considered a paria from the previous Biden administration and by the western countries after its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Following this, Americans and Russians started unprecedented negotiations in Saudi Arabia, in the hope of restoring their relationships. Will Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin meet face to face? They proposed it, perhaps since April, also on the soil of the Saudi Kingdom transformed into a intermediary of luxury.
At the same time, the United States exacerbated their position towards the PUkrainian resident Volodymyr Zelenskyafter the spectacular altercation that took place during his visit to the White House shocked the world. Europeans, excluded from the discussion, were involved in the trilateral meetings last Thursday in Paris, before a new session in London this week. But since the negotiations for the ceased the fire are stalled, Donald Trump has threatened to retire from the discussions if an agreement will not be quickly reached.
Relations with Iran
On another front, the American president has started rare negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program. Americans and Iranians, enemies since the Islamic revolution of 1979, have already kept two sessions of indirect interviews, in Oman and Rome, guided, on the American side, from the president’s right arm, his friend Miliario Steve Witkoff. Washington, who pursues a “maximum pressure” policy towards Tehran, claims to be in favor of a diplomatic solution with Iran, but does not exclude military intervention to prevent him from obtaining nuclear weapons. The officials of the Trump administration, starting with the secretary of state Marco Rubio, have repeatedly stressed that the President of the United States “thinks out of the patterns” and is “the only” capable of guiding these negotiations.
The other ‘goals’
Among the other successes achieved from January 20: the announced withdrawal of the United States from the Paris agreement on the climate and by the World Health Organization (WHO). In addition, the President of the United States has started massive budget cuts Foreign aids of the United States, in the name of the fight against waste and programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion. He also caught a policy of expulsion of illegal immigrants and launched a war against Mexican drug signs, described by him as foreign terrorist organizations.
“His initiatives represent a real revolution Compared to what we knew, at least from the Second World War, “says Melvyn Leffler, historian of the University of Virginia.” I think Trump is a return to late nineteenth -century social Darwinism, in which he believed that all nations were engaged in a struggle for the survival of the most suitable “, he adds, doubting that the United States will never return” to the same type of liberal, global and hegemonic order Less since 1945 “.