Yes, long before his ascendance to the White House, Trump
had managed to paint him as a peacemaker, promising to end America’s “endless
wars.” But most people in the United States of Amnesia seem to have forgotten
that during his first four-year tenure in the White House Trump embarked on a
dangerous path with a series of reckless foreign policy decisions that
threatened peace and made the world a far more dangerous place.
Trump walked away from an Iran deal and withdrew from
the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty and the Open
Skies Treaty while US air wars became broader and “increasingly
indiscriminate.”
Iraq, Somalia, and Syria were among the countries that
Trump loosened the rules of engagement for US forces. Trump also
ordered the killing of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani and threatened “fire
and fury” against North Korea.
In addition, Trump increased tensions between Israelis and
Palestinians by recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and moving
the US embassy there from Tel Aviv.
The president of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas
said at the time that Trump’s decision undermined all peace efforts and called
his actions “a crime,” while the political leader of the Hamas movement, Ismail
Haniya, who was assassinated by the Israeli Mossad in Tehran on July 31, 2024,
called for a new “intifada.”
Shortly upon assuming the Office of the President of the
United States for the second time, Trump embarked on a jingoistic journey by
threatening to take over Greenland (an idea he had floated back in 2019), make
Canada the 51st state, reclaim the Panama Canal, and attack Mexico. And
just as he had done during his first term in office, he withdrew the US from
the landmark Paris climate agreement, even though the climate crisis is an
existential one and is expected to increase the risk of armed conflict.
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