Trump Should Embrace World Chaos
World peace is the apotheosis of the globalist fantasy. Fortunes were spent constructing globalist organizations like the United Nations and the League of Nations in the hope that they could replace world wars with world peace, but all they did was globalize local conflicts.
And start new wars.
The idea that we could build a rules-based international order is a failure...
Some want Trump to be in the peacemaking business, but peacemaking is a globalist fallacy. In reality, war, not peace, is inevitable...
And the United States does not need to be involved in trying to negotiate every conflict...
At some point everyone (even in D.C.) ought to be able to figure out that other countries fight wars because they want to fight them... Islamic Jihadism goes back well over a thousand years...
On foreign policy, President Trump has been ignoring the experts and doing things that they said couldn’t be done. But we’re still tethered to the old Wilsonian notion that the world is our responsibility instead of our playground, that it’s our job to tell the other children to behave themselves, and leverage our economic and military power to make sure that they do. This is the dull mindset that stuck us with being a world power because we took all the stuff that even the Europeans didn’t seriously...
America is out of both the Wilson and Biden comas. And it’s time to stop trying to run the world for the benefit of the world (which the world never appreciates) and rather than trying to control the chaos, we should embrace it, ride it and adapt to the possibilities that it brings...
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The Clinton Paper Chase, by Charles Krauthammer, Jewish World Review, 25 October 2002:
The great divide in American foreign policy thinking is between those who believe in paper and those who believe in power. The paper school was in charge of the 1990s.
In the 1990s the main objective of Clinton foreign policy was to get as many signatures as possible on as many pieces of paper as possible promising peace and brotherhood. There was a mania for treaties -- on chemical and biological weapons, nuclear proliferation and testing, land mines, antiballistic missiles, climate control. And, of course, treaties with mortal enemies.
One of the proudest achievements of the Clinton administration was the Agreed Framework with North Korea. Clinton assured us that it froze the North Korean nuclear program. North Korea gave us a piece of paper promising to freeze; we gave North Korea 500,000 tons of free oil every year and set about building -- also for free -- two huge $2 billion nuclear power plants that supposedly could be used only to produce electricity...
It turns out the North Koreans took the loot and lied. Surprise! All the while they were enriching uranium...
This is not that hard to figure out. Living by paper -- contracts and laws and courts and binding agreements -- is lovely. It's what makes domestic society civilized and decent. The problem is that the international arena is not domestic society. It is a jungle. It is a state of nature...
Covenants without Swords? by Bruce Thornton, Hoover Institution, 21 April 2010:
... This belief in the power of diplomatic engagement to defuse crises and resolve conflicts without the use of force reflects Western ideals that since the Enlightenment have shaped notions about interstate relations. These ideals assume that human nature and civilization are progressing away from the violence and disorder fostered by irrational superstitions, such as ethnic, religious, or nationalist loyalties, to a world in which the essential rationality of human nature will be liberated and thus able to create a more stable and just universal social and political order...
A belief in the power of diplomatic engagement to defuse crises and resolve conflicts without force reflects Enlightenment ideals that have long shaped notions about interstate relations...
The sources of conflict, then, will be found in an irrational human nature, constant over time and space, rather than in environmental or other material causes, which will merely supply the occasion for the human passions and appetites to be manifested...
Finally, history shows that a state faced with an aggressor but unwilling to confront him, whether because of fear, internal political constraints, or its own national interests, will use diplomacy to create the impression that something is being done, substituting words for deeds. This is particularly important in democratic states, where transient public opinion puts enormous pressure on elected officials. A multinational organization such as the United Nations, then, serves as the photogenic locus of debate, inquiry, resolutions, and other verbal camouflage for the inability or unwillingness to act, becoming what Winston Churchill warned against in 1946: a “cockpit in the Tower of Babel.”...
As Thomas Hobbes, the first translator of Thucydides into English, has written, “For the laws of nature, as justice, equity, modesty, mercy, and, in sum, doing to others as we would be done to, of themselves, without the terror of some power to cause them to be observed, are contrary to our natural passions, that carry us to partiality, pride, revenge, and the like. And covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.”
Trump doubles down on threats against Russia, shortening deadline for Putin to 'make peace' with Ukraine or face more sanctions, by Leo Hohmann, 28 July 2025:
When 'peace' is imposed on nations from outside parties it rarely lasts. World would be better off if Russia-Ukraine resolved their own disputes. Without US intervention this war would already be over.
Let it be said for the record: Trump’s policy on Ukraine now mirrors that of Joe Biden, threatening Russia while funding its enemy...
Putin is the... [president] of a sovereign nation. It’s called Russia. As such, at least the last time I checked, the Russian government was tasked with protecting the national-security interests of the Russian people, a responsibility that ranks ahead of any desires to make Trump happy in support of a corrupt American ally in Kiev...
This war will end when one side militarily defeats the other side. That would have already happened had the U.S. and Europe minded their own business...
Russia and Putin will not be bullied into standing down before they finish the job of demilitarizing Ukraine and rendering it less of a threat to Russia’s national security...