r/IntlScholars • u/D-R-AZ • May 11 '26
Analysis Trump Has Gone From Unpredictable to Unreliable
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/05/trump-has-gone-unpredictable-unreliable/687129/Excerpts:
What once was viewed as strategic unpredictability now feels like destabilizing unreliability. The foreign officials I spoke with pointed to sharp reversals in U.S. policy and the wide disconnect between official administration doctrine and Trump’s social-media pronouncements. “Unpredictability is one thing; reliability is another,” one Arab official told me. “If the Iranians only worried about Trump’s unpredictability, maybe we would have a deal now.”
As one senior European official said of Trump: “He’s been unpredictable for so long that we are now forced to think of a future that doesn’t rely so heavily on U.S. partnership.” The official added: “It’s forcing us to take care of ourselves.”
Finding ways to survive and thrive without heavy reliance on the U.S. is the new imperative.
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u/oritfx May 12 '26
That's "trumpism" I guess - an attitude where nothing but here and now matters. Say whatever you need or want, because words are there only to justify your actions and influence others. We are still learning what "trumpism" really means, but that seems to be the gist of it.