There Is No Doctrine, Just Whim

Francis Fukuyama: “It’s a conceit of foreign policy intellectuals to try to infer from statements and events a consistent doctrine underlying an administration’s activities. It should be clear by now that there is no such thing as a Trump doctrine. The administration itself tried to articulate such a doctrine last November when it went through the ritual of producing a National Security Strategy for the second Trump term.”

“It’s clear today that that strategy document bears no relationship to actual administration foreign policy.”