Negotiating with the likes of Putin is essentially making a deal with the devil

There’s realpolitik.

And then there’s reality TV politik.

There’s foreign policy realism, of the kind associated with Henry Kissinger .

And then there’s Donald Trump’s twist: real estate-ism.

Anyone trying to assess the foreign policy of this White House needs to appreciate these distinctions.

The various individuals responsible for national security in the Trump administration are united in their rejection of both the liberal idealism that informed the speeches (if not the actions) of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama , and the neoconservative version of idealism that inspired George W. Bush’s Global War on Terror.

Yet there is much more to Trump 2.0 than the hard-nosed realism of Richard Nixon — a key influence on Trump.

No previous president has livestreamed his Oval Office m