D.Trump and the illusion of non-interventionism |
Donald Trump was re-elected on a clear promise: to stop engaging the United States in conflicts that would benefit neither security nor the American economy. Yet the facts seem to contradict this discourse. Strategic involvement alongside Israel in the face of Iran, increased pressure on Venezuela, actions in Africa against groups affiliated with the Islamic State, military signals in the Indo-Pacific: never has the United States seemed as present for years. Can one see a denial, or on the contrary, the emergence of a new assumed interventionism?
The contradiction is only apparent. Trump is not an isolationist in the strict sense. It does not advocate the withdrawal of the United States from the world, but the rejection of an ideological interventionism inherited from the post-Cold War era: one that “wants to ‘transform societies, export........