Mr Donald Trump’s second and current tenure as President of the United States began with his inauguration as the 47th president on January 20, 2025. Since then, his foreign policy has continuously sparked debate and has put global geopolitics in a tailspin. The assessment of his first term was marked by strategic rivalry with China, pressure on European allies, and the dismantling of Barack Obama’s legacy, which not only confirmed the existence of strong ideological foundations but also purely opportunistic and self-generated, if not helter-skelter, tendencies. One year after the beginning of the second term, this tension remains at the heart of the American debate. During the campaign, he committed to ending the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, obviously on terms and conditions that consolidate US global supremacy, strong anchoring in old, newly acquired, and intended expanded spheres of influence with monopoly over the greatest reserves of hydrocarbons and precious rare earth elements (REEs); besides ensuring domination of the US dollar in the world economy, risk-free use of global lines of communication, as well as cyber and outer space.

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The second Trump administration does not appear as a mere continuation of the period between 2017 and 2021. While the principles of “America First” still shape major strategic objectives, their implementation has evolved with the domestic and international political situation. Drawing on the experience of the........

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