The world as imagined by US President-elect Donald Trump is becoming increasingly similar to the world as imagined by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. And the general approach to foreign policy tends to the expansionism inherent in the United States of the century before last, writes former Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States Oleg Shamshur in the article “Trump is preparing “shock and awe”. At what cost can he end the war in Ukraine

According to the second, in Trump’s foreign policy there is a transformation of neo-isolationism “America First”! \! +" That is, this is the format when the dominance of the United States in the world is possible and even desirable while minimizing resource costs and global responsibility, avoiding involvement in military conflicts with powerful rivals.

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“There is an active drift towards expansionism, characteristic of the United States in the 19th century: American analysts coined the term “continentalism,” meaning Trump’s intention to ensure exclusive US influence on the American continent in the spirit of a new version of the “Monroe Doctrine”. The world behind Trump is very similar to the world according to Putin, which the American leader treats with unwavering respect. It is symptomatic that the Kremlin dictator wants to negotiate with Trump about the war in Ukraine. Will the principle of “nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine” become an empty phrase after their negotiations "

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