How Trump Will Reshape Foreign Policy

Cato Institute's Trevor Thrall on the Trump Doctrine

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"I think [Trump] kind of has a zero-sum view of the world," says Cato Institute Senior Fellow Trevor Thrall. "'We're going to win, and we're going to beat people up hard to do it.'"

Reason TV's Nick Gillespie sat down with Thrall to discuss the Trump Doctrine, its potential effect on global stability, and America's role as an indispensable nation.

Camera by Todd Krainin, Joshua Swain, and Mark McDaniel. Edited by Austin Bragg.

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[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

It's depressing how many people call themselves libertarians and actually believe trade and foreign policy are zero sum games, let alone ordinary statists.

[MyCroftxXx]

This is a vagary in language that libertarians use. Someone DOES lose, but society benefits. You didn't have the scores to go to medical school so you became a Vet/Dentist. Economics only solves for efficiency, not for personal aspirations.

While someone wins and someone loses, doctors AND Vets/Dentists both benefit. This is a hard truth for most to come to terms with. Would you, in a truly free market, honestly keep the status you currently have? Most likely not.

Whatever the faults of a cold, hard free market, it still is the only chance humanity has. When i get caught in this argument I have started quoting a line from a book I read recently: "This ain't no utopia"

[Tronald_Dump]

That's just your opinion.

[Juice]

You didn't have the scores to go to medical school so you became a Vet/Dentist.

Vet school is tougher than human med school. Just saying.

[The Last American Hero]

In vet school you have to be able to deal with a snake, a horse, a fish, a cat, and a rat - sometimes all in the same day.

[SIV]

Short versio:

Cato is totally cucked.

[Tronald_Dump]

Short repl:
ur dum

[Tak Kak]

Might have been better to just say, "let's wait longer than a month." "He's a hawk who doesn't care to intervene" might need some refinement.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Sussing out Trump's foreign policy from his campaign speeches is a fool's errand. He is exactly as likely to follow through with them as any other candidate who becomes president.

[Jerry on the sea]

What do you mean Obama isn't going to close Guantanamo Bay?

[The Last American Hero]

What do you mean Obama won't bring the troops out of Iraq in 2009?

[Jerryskids]

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I don't have an account for the first four so it doesn't do me any good to click them and the last one doesn't provide full text as one would hope. I guess I'm SOL. Thanks, Trump, you bastard.

[wareagle]

so there's already a Trump Doctrine. Damn, the guy really is moving at warp speed. Might I suggest this: he's a business guy, not a cookie-cutter politician; take him seriously, but not literally. I think Trump throws down something as a starting point for negotiation. After years of mealy-mouthed pronouncements of "productive talks" and diplomacy and whatever else, it's a change. Whether the change is good or bad remains to be seen.

[Tak Kak]

"I think Trump throws down something as a starting point for negotiation."
He had an entire ghost-written book about that.

[$park? don't care bout yo mom]

Reason TV's Nick Gillespie sat down with Thrall to discuss the Trump Doctrine

Were any comparisons made to the Garrosh Hellscream Doctrine?

[mtrueman]

I can't see why Trump would have any more sway over foreign policy or what the military gets up to than Obama did.

[woodNfish]

This article is proof that the unReason
staff just makes crap up in order to hav some kind of anti-Trump diatribe to publish. In his inauguration speech Trump said this, "We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world, but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first."

Does that sound like a zero sum plan to anyone except the brain-dead and deaf staff at unreason and every other lying leftist MSM outlet? And this is not the first time Trump has made similar statements. Negotiation is not a zero sum game. Trump knows that, unReason however prefers to pretend he doesn't know that because they would prefer to pretend Trump doesn't know how to negotiate.

Just more reasons why unReason is a waste of time and a cesspool of intellectual dishonesty.

And I am still not a paying subscriber and never will be as long as the idiots at unReason continue to pursue being willfull dumbasses who ignore the facts so they can publish their fake news lies.

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RE: How Trump Will Reshape Foreign Policy

Here's an idea for the USA's foreign policy...non-interventionism.
This idea will save billions of dollars and thousands of lives.
Oh wait...this makes sense.
My mistake.

[Rational Exuberance]

"I think [Trump] kind of has a zero-sum view of the world," says Cato Institute Senior Fellow Trevor Thrall. "'We're going to win, and we're going to beat people up hard to do it.'"

Foreign policy need not be zero sum, provided you conduct it with other nations of good will. 99% of UN members are looking for handouts and hate our guts, and with negotiation partners like that, foreign policy is zero sum or negative sum (meaning, not dealing with them at all may well be best).

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