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Foreign-Policy Fantasy Literature

Under Trump 2.0, a new book by policymaking heavyweights is an exercise in absurdity. November 21, 2025, 3:00 PM Comment icon View Comments ( )

A photo collage grid of Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, and J.D. Vance among stills from the Situation Room.

The past few years have created something of an existential crisis for the U.S. foreign-policy community. A series of big blunders—the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, regime change in Libya—have led many Americans to question the expertise of U.S. foreign-policy practitioners. Some have argued that President Donald Trump’s two election victories in 2016 and 2024 were populist vindications of the notion that presidents do not need to listen to experts as much as their guts.

But most int

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