{"id":225,"date":"2026-06-04T04:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housingnewsamerica.com\/?p=225"},"modified":"2026-06-04T04:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:08:12","slug":"are-americas-allies-finally-learning-to-deal-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housingnewsamerica.com\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"Are America\u2019s Allies Finally Learning to Deal With Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Six months ago, Philip Gordon and Mara Karlin wrote an essay in Foreign Affairs<\/em> about the plight of the United States\u2019 allies in U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s second term. What was surprising, they argued, was not the administration\u2019s cajoling and threats, or all the ways U.S. policy had called into question the basic principles of these relationships. The surprise was that allies were surprised by these moves in the first place. Almost a year into Trump\u2019s second term, they had done little to develop a plan B.<\/p>\n

Read more Iran\u2019s New Grand Strategy<\/a><\/p>\n

The months since have brought a wave of new challenges to U.S. alliances\u2014the threats to seize Greenland and pull out of NATO, the continued warnings to free-riders, the shifting approach to China, and a war in Iran launched with little consultation even of the Gulf leaders who would be most directly affected.<\/p>\n

Editor Dan Kurtz-Phelan spoke to Gordon, who was national security adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris, and Karlin, who was assistant secretary of defense in the Biden administration, on June 1. They discussed how the responses of U.S. allies in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East have evolved over the course of Trump\u2019s second term, and how those responses will shape and constrain U.S. power in the years ahead.<\/p>\n

Read more The Inertia of Russia\u2019s War<\/a><\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Allies After America\u201d by Philip H. Gordon and Mara Karlin<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Return of Total War\u201d by Mara Karlin<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerica\u2019s Middle East Purgatory\u201d by Mara Karlin and Tamara Cofman Wittes<\/p>\n

This episode of The Foreign Affairs Interview<\/em> was produced by Rose Kohler and Kanishk Tharoor, with audio engineering by Christopher Koch and Markus Zakaria and original music by Robin Hilton. Special thanks to Irina Hogan.<\/p>\n

Read more Iran Embraces a Forever War<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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