Talk about foreign policy Donald Trump is talking about uncertainty. The personalism that he imprints on his management, together with his way of understanding the international relations As a purely transactional business they make it an unpredictable leader. Better known for his phobias than for his philias or, what is the same, for everything he doesn’t like, such as global institutions or the free trade than by the kind of world he would like to shape. A riddle that does not seem to be clarified by its appointments in foreign policy and defense. Trump has prioritized loyalty above all. The result is a heterogeneous team, with several war veterans and names better known for their appearances on television than for their experience in the fields they will lead. A strange mix of ‘falcons’, neophytes and even one isolationist close to Russia.
The two nominations that have most reassured the capital’s establishment, without necessarily pleasing the movement MAGA of Trump, are those of the senator Marco Rubio as Secretary of State and the deputy Mike Waltz as national security advisor. Until recently, both of them fit perfectly with the ‘neocon’those warmongering crusaders who caused enormous destruction in the Middle East under the pretext of export democracy. After an illustrious career as Green Beret, Waltz worked as the Pentagon’s policy director under Donald Rumsfeld and as anti-terrorist advisor to Dick Cheneytwo of the architects of the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
