On Foreign Policy, Trump 2.0 Is Dangerously Unrestrained

Doug Bandow Even as he underwrites and wages multiple wars, proposes a gargantuan $500 billion increase in military outlays , and plans to build his own Arc de Triomphe , President Donald Trump apparently believes himself to be a man of peace. He has become a classic example of historian Lord Acton’s dictum in action: “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” , As Trump completes the first year of his second term, he is demonstrating that his first term was merely a playful preview. This time he has gotten serious, with new wars and threats of war multiplying, sometimes on an almost daily basis.

He believes that there are no meaningful limits—legal, institutional, constitutional, or even moral, other than his own musings —on loosing the dogs of war with the most powe