Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s Jacksonian Foreign Policy (With a Twist)

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s Jacksonian Foreign Policy (With a Twist)


Most famously, we saw Iran, that when he came into office, the first thing he did was get back out of the Iran Deal, put back the sanctions, support Israel’s effort to retaliate against Iran. It’s using embargoed oil tankers to sell sanctioned oil to Cuba, to China, and, more or less, opened up its jails and mental institutions and sent thousands of people, in spite, to the United States. But with other powers in our vicinity or that we have leverage over, we’re going to start to squeeze them, to bring back legitimate government, pro-American governments, and stability for the entire Western hemisphere.

Author: Victor Davis Hanson


Published at: 2026-01-06 22:00:00

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