4 signs that show Trump’s foreign policy remains staunchly anti-Russian

Don’t fto mainstream media’s absorption to President Donald Trump’s Oval Office gathering with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy misinform. If Trump’s first-term overseas argumentation serves arsenic immoderate denotation of however "pro-NATO" and "anti-Russian" his second-term overseas argumentation volition be, the grounds is overwhelmingly pro-NATO and anti-Russian. 

Regardless of disapproval – mostly by perennial Donald Trump critics – the president is nary person to Russia and his archetypal word substantively reflects that.

As a erstwhile subject serviceman and diplomat who served successful Eastern Europe during the bulk of Trump’s archetypal term, I witnessed first-hand the tangible, unrelenting and effectual anti-Russian and pro-NATO policies helium directed American diplomats to communicate, power and implement. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump (Contributor/Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

The pursuing is simply a database of circumstantial overseas policies I witnessed and supported nether from 2017 to 2020. 

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Increasing NATO countries’ subject spending to greater than 2% GDP

This argumentation was of the highest precedence for subject diplomats serving successful NATO countries. The quantifiable argumentation was customized based connected the circumstantial subject modernization needs of each NATO country. In the state I served in, Bulgaria, the argumentation resulted successful the Bulgarian parliament approving the acquisition of 8 U.S. F-16 jets to the terms of much than $1.3 cardinal arsenic Bulgaria’s Air Force required drastic modernization. 

A much modernized and susceptible NATO (steered by American diplomatic pressure) focused connected accrued subject spending… not bully for Russia.

Lethal assistance to Ukraine

Under President Trump – and successful stark opposition to President Barack Obama’s Ukrainian argumentation – the U.S. provided lethal assistance to Ukraine successful the signifier of Javelins, aka vessel killers. Javelins enabled the Ukrainians to summation a warring accidental connected the eastbound beforehand of the struggle wherever they were historically losing. Ukrainian subject attaches, whom I befriended and worked intimately with during my clip successful Bulgaria, often embraced maine and said, "Thank you, brother, we yet person a accidental connected the eastbound front." 

A much susceptible and modernized Ukrainian subject equipped with Javelins… not bully for Russia.

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Largest expulsion of Russian diplomats successful U.S. history

Following the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal successful Salisbury, United Kingdom, successful 2018 by Russian agents, Prime Minister Theresa May implored President Trump to instrumentality a beardown and symbolic diplomatic stance successful enactment of Britian and successful stern rebuke of Russia. Trump replied, "What tin I do?" 

In summation to 60 Russian diplomats being declared persona non grata and forced to permission the U.S., Trump ordered the imperishable closure of the Russian Consulate successful Seattle, Washington. On the planetary front, U.S. embassies each implicit the satellite further influenced section diplomatic action, resulting successful respective expulsions of Russian diplomats. 

Ordering the largest Russian diplomatic expulsion successful U.S. history… not bully for Russia.  

Sanctioned Russian state pipeline Nord Stream 2

In December 2019, Trump formally sanctioned each companies progressive with the operation of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which sought to transport Russian substance straight from Russia into Germany via the Baltic Sea. 

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Trump, successful an overarching diplomatic strategy to weaken Russian power successful Europe, began shaping the contented during a NATO meal successful Brussels successful 2018 erstwhile helium openly stated, "Germany is wholly controlled by Russia," adding the operation of the pipeline was "bad for NATO." Ultimately the pipeline ne'er became operational, and Nord Stream 2 declared bankruptcy successful 2022, laying disconnected each 106 employees. 

Spearheading the demise of Russian substance enlargement into Germany… not bully for Russia.

Whenever I perceive the baseless criticisms of Trump’s overseas argumentation – peculiarly the thoughtless pro-Russian accusations – I wonderment if the critics person immoderate inclination to amended themselves connected his existent policies, which were thing but affable to the Russian government. 

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As the president accurately stated successful his code to Congress, Democrats would not beryllium blessed if helium recovered a cure for the deadliest disease; the aforesaid tin beryllium said of his overseas argumentation critics. Coincidentally, the lone U.S. statesmanlike word Putin has not invaded a overseas country, dating backmost to 2008, was during Trump’s archetypal term.

President Trump… not bully for Russia.

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