Today, President Donald Trump threw one of the most important tenets of own foreign policy into a 180-degree turn, reversing course without even slowing down. Trump has always been overly deferential to Vladimir Putin, including enabling the Russian president’s war in Ukraine. Now Trump appears to be signaling that he’s fed up with the Kremlin. But is he?
Trump’s latest policy reversal came after he spoke to the United Nations General Assembly for nearly an hour today. His speech was classic Trump: Full of grievance, inappropriate references to American political feuds, embarrassing moments of self-promotion, detours into odd tangents, and claims that everyone in the world but him is stupid. Trump seemed irritated with everyone, including Putin, for depriving him of the Nobel Peace Prize