Will we hear again of Big Stick isolationism from Trump before the election?
Or will he just surprise us and walk away from NATO, the WTO, the UN, and some or all of our Pacific alliances, all after the election?
And then shock us all by again urging a formal US-Israel mutual defense pact, extending our nuclear umbrella to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv?
His muddled neo-isolationist nationalism played pretty well in his 2016 campaign, and might again.
And though I haven't seen much on that point I'd expect Biden to continue to be what he has been for all his career, a standard-issue adherent of liberal globalism, firmly defending its post WW2 institutional creations and affirming, if asked, our Article 5 commitment to putting Riga under our nuclear umbrella.
On the other hand, it has been the custom of Democrats to run on peace and then give us war, once in the White House.
Wilson, FDR, and even Kennedy/Johnson all did that.
The Duce could pull a Republican reversal, running as a foreign policy tough guy and then actually going through with major pieces of his 2016 America First agenda.
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