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Trump has no foreign policy

“Mind the sequence: First, Trump watches a Fox News segment”: Erik Wemple on how Fox News is now forging U.S. foreign policy. Donald Trump is the Bizarro Noam Chomsky: The president shares the left-wing view that America is a brutal imperialist power — but he thinks there's nothing wrong with that. Quit calling Donald Trump an isolationist — he is a militarist, something far worse. Trump has no foreign policy: There's no such thing as a Trump Doctrine, folks — just an incoherent mess. Trump’s grand strategic train wreck: Believe it or not, the president has a grand strategy — but it's a nightmarish mess. The Trump administration’s foreign policy is running so smoothly.

Michael Flynn, General Chaos: What the removal of Flynn as the national-security adviser reveals about Donald Trump’s White House. Classified memo tells intelligence analysts to keep Trump's daily brief short. Trump ignores “the grown-ups” in his Cabinet: Foreign policy chiefs struggle to influence a wobbly White House. What should U.S. military leaders do if the president provokes a major international crisis? New praetorianism: A fetish for generals has seized the nation — and America is careening toward disaster.