12.05.2019 - 20:02 [ Washington Post ]

Does a Trump doctrine on foreign policy exist? Ask John Bolton.

(02.05.2019)

More important — because Trump is rarely consistent and could change his mind tomorrow — it reflects the views of the man closest to him on foreign policy, national security adviser John Bolton.

Bolton has been variously described as a neoconservative, a paleoconservative and a conservative hawk. In fact, he is simply a conservative, in the oldest, most classical sense: someone who has a dark view of humankind.