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What are Donald Trumps ideas on foreign policy?

 
 
 
I think he's planning to let in 200,000 muslim and North African refugees into Texas, just put taxes up a little to pay for it, sounds good, no wait wasn't that the other contender for President??
 
He says he has the greatest plans ever devised.

And he will tell us AFTER he is elected.
 
untermensche said:
He says he has the greatest plans ever devised.

And he will tell us AFTER he is elected.
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Kind of sounds like Nixon's "secret plan" for the war in Vietnam.

And in the news, Robert Gates, ex-secretary of defence says he hasn't heard much substance from any GOP candidate as far as foreign policy is concerned. Ben Carson admitted that the only candidate with foreign policy experience was Clinton. Gates admits in his dealings with Clinton that he found her tough smart and effective.
 
untermensche said:
He says he has the greatest plans ever devised.

And he will tell us AFTER he is elected.
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Totally agree. He's full of shit. However, out of all the republicans running, he does seem to be inclined to favor less US intervention than the other republicans. He has stated that he doesn't want to send in ground troops. He's not against Russia fighting ISIS.
 
He's the only GOP frontrunner who hasn't promised to break the Iran deal. He's on the record in saying that while he doesn't like the deal, it would be bad policy to break it.

He's actually more sane than either Cruz or Rubio on that point.
 
Is this fair?
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/10/27/donald-trump-is-right-about-foreign-policy/
So what is Trump’s foreign policy? The candidate has taken flack for his lack of advisors on international matters. And Peter Feaver wrote this week for FP that Trump doesn’t even have a foreign policy. But the truth is, The Donald has a grand (you might even call it yooge) vision. In its simplest terms, he seems to believe that the United States should not expend its foreign-policy energy and power unless its allies, partners, or other stakeholders have a similar commitment to solving the issue at hand. That’s basically the opposite of the current consensus among Washington’s foreign-policy and national security leaders.

Take Trump’s stance on Europe, the continent with the staunchest American allies for over half a century. In 2000, he wrote: “Pulling back from Europe would save this country millions of dollars annually. The cost of stationing NATO troops in Europe is enormous. And these are clearly funds that can be put to better use.” When confronted about this by NBC’s Chuck Todd, Trump had a chance to backtrack. After all, he could make the case that since he offered that opinion, Europe got tested by an aggressive Russia, witnessed large-scale terrorist attacks, and showed it could not take down a weak adversary even with U.S. help. There was no need to double down on a belief he held 15 years ago. And, yet, he did just that.

“Where’s Germany?” the then-GOP front-runner exclaimed to Todd. “Where are the countries of Europe leading? I don’t mind helping them. I don’t mind being right behind them. I’ll be right behind them,” which sounds just like one of the most excoriated foreign-policy positions held by the Obama administration.

Trump stayed consistent when discussing Ukraine, perhaps Europe’s most pressing security challenge. “I don’t like what’s happening with Ukraine,” Trump said in that same interview. “But that’s really a problem that affects Europe a lot more than it affects us. And they should be leading some of this charge.” In addition, Trump “wouldn’t care” if Ukraine joined NATO, overturning the expansion policy that has existed since the alliance’s founding to the start of the Obama administration. (Granted, Trump’s stance puts him in line with Ukraine’s current wishes since it stopped seeking NATO membership in 2010, though that policy may soon change.)
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Yeah, foreign policy is actually what makes me prefer Trump to Cruz and Rubio. He takes a businessman's view to foreign policy, rather than an apocalyptic good vs evil view.
 
I don't think Trump will get elected but it could happen I guess.
If he did could he be a President who closes some of Americas foreign military bases and reigns in the trillions that the neo cons have wasted on wars?
 
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