‘In the years since he first took office, it has become increasingly hard to define the “Tr*mp Doctrine” for foreign policy. He has taken more and more contradictory moves while growing more confident in his Oval Office instincts. Foreign affairs luminaries have devoted many papers to trying to clarify the aims of a man who refuses to come into focus. He’s a shallow transactionalist! He’s a principled realist! He’s an imperialist with a Western Hemisphere fixation! Tr*mp himself once even said, “I’m a nationalist and a globalist. I’m both.”

Tr*mp’s decision to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites this weekend is the latest sign that he’s now in a phase where he’s willing to take enormous risks with little concern about the blowback. He has survived so much already — two impeachments, criminal convictions, two assassination attempts. He doesn’t have to run for office again, and, as has been amply noted, his advisers won’t restrain him the way they did in his first term.…’ Nahal Toosi via POLITICO