THE PRIVATE STASH
The New Global Standard: Trump’s Foreign Policy
Foreign policy has always been a messy place, full of back-alley deals and sharp elbows. But for a long time, the U.S. had a certain reputation. You knew where you stood. You knew what would happen if you pushed too hard. Now? The guard dogs have been put down, and there’s a poodle on a leash wandering the globe. The master holding the leash has a name, and it ain’t American.
I’m talking about Trump foreign policy, the new global standard of weakness.
Testing the Leash: Putin’s Drone Provocation
Just look at what happened in Poland. Russian drones, not one or two but a damn squadron, waltzed into NATO airspace. They flew deep, a clear provocation, a challenge to the world’s most powerful military alliance. The response? NATO allies scrambled jets, and the Polish Foreign Minister, Radek Sikorski, told the world what anyone with a working set of eyes already knew: Putin is mocking Trump.
Russia’s president is a chess player, and he’s playing against a man who thinks checkers is a complicated game. Putin is testing the boundaries, seeing how far he can push before the so-called leader of the free world puts his foot down. And what did he get? An ambiguous, cryptic post on social media. A shrug of a response to a blatant act of aggression. It told Putin, and every other tin-pot dictator watching, that the leash is a little longer now.
The Price of Weakness: An Empire in Decline
This isn’t about politics; it’s about a global order crumbling into dust. The old rules, the ones that kept a thin veneer of respectability on the world stage, are gone. When a global power acts like a paper tiger, others will line up to tear it to shreds. The drone attack on Poland wasn’t an accident; it was a test, and Trump’s reaction—or lack of one—was the answer.
And if you think that was a fluke, look south. Way south. To a place that was supposed to be a backroom for negotiations, but turned into an open-air shooting gallery.
Another Master, Another Leash: Netanyahu Declares War on the World
While the world was still figuring out what Trump’s cryptic post meant, another ally was showing its true colors. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, long seen as a man with a private line to the White House, decided to take a shot at his own terms. His forces struck Doha, a city that not only hosts Hamas leaders for negotiations but also holds the largest U.S. military base in the Middle East.
An attack on a host nation for U.S. forces is more than a slap in the face; it’s a declaration that they don’t care about what the U.S. thinks. Even traditional allies like Britain and France are shaking their heads. The White House, through its spokesperson, called the move out for not advancing U.S. goals, but that’s as far as it went. The response from Netanyahu and his defense minister? More threats. More saber-rattling. Netanyahu’s “long arm” will act against enemies anywhere, he said, and the rest of the world can go to hell.
This isn’t just a strike on Hamas; it’s a strike on U.S. influence. It shows that Netanyahu, like Putin, sees a weak hand at the wheel in Washington. The world no longer looks to the U.S. for guidance or restraint. They see a poodle on a leash, a whimpering dog being walked by men who understand power and how to exploit a weak hand. The great American experiment in global leadership is on life support, and the doctors are standing by the patient’s bedside, trying to decide whether to pull the plug or not. It’s a sad, cold truth, but the news doesn’t care for sentimentality. It just reports the facts.
