Donald Trump, over the past few weeks, has grown more vocal about what his foreign policy would look like in a second administration. You might even get the impression that the former president actually cares about what is going on in the world. But you would be wrong.

Trump is indeed actively engaging with international leaders and weighing in on international issues on a regular basis as this election year heats up. But in each and every case, his foreign policy outreach has just one primary objective: helping Trump stay out of the slammer by getting himself re-elected President of the United States.

This is as pathetic and dangerous as it is predictable, it may also offer an insight for the folks who actually care about foreign policy, and who want to get MAGA to shift its positions on critical issues—like providing aid to Ukraine.

Trump’s campaign year policy “adjustments” were illustrated when Trump recently met with two Israeli journalists from a right-wing Israeli newspaper owned by a big GOP donor, Miriam Adelson. Naturally, they expected Trump to offer a strong statement of solidarity with his buddy Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. What they got instead was: “You have to finish up your war. You have to get it done. We have to get to peace. We can’t have this going on.”

Is this a sign that Trump has suddenly gone peacenik? Hardly. Trump, who is nothing if not pragmatic, sees the handwriting on the wall. U.S. sentiment on the war in Gaza is shifting. A recent Gallup poll showed a majority of people opposing Israel’s actions in Gaza.

In a close election in which he has plenty of baggage already, Trump does not want to be on the losing side of........

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