Just what is Trump’s foreign policy?

American diplomat George F. Kennan, author of the Long Telegram, in 1947. By Harris & Ewing — This image is available from the United States Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID hec.12925.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6793416

Taking a page from Stalinist Russia

In 1946, puzzled by the seemingly irrational foreign policy of the United States’ erstwhile World War II ally, the Soviet Union, President Truman’s State Department leadership queried our Moscow embassy for an explanation. In response, diplomat and Soviet expert George Kennan wrote the longest diplomatic cable ever sent up to that time…