‘They Would Never Be Doing This Under Trump’: Two G.O.P. Foreign Policy Experts on What a Second Term Would Mean for the World

In 2016 foreign policy was the arena where a Donald Trump presidency seemed likely to be the most destabilizing. Eight years later, he is campaigning on a promise to restore peace to a world that’s grown much more violent and chaotic on President Biden’s watch.

Many Trump critics assume that any successes during his administration were achieved by his advisers and diplomats in spite of his own reckless impulses and that a Trump restoration would give those impulses freer rein — spelling disaster for U.S. alliances and the peace of the world.