While a government shutdown and an endless barrage of daily tweets have kept Americans distracted, the Trump administration has launched an all-out assault on America’s postwar foreign policy. The White House’s objective is not to retreat into isolationism, but rather to dismantle restraints on U.S. freedom of action and shift toward robust unilateralism.
This mission drew Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Brussels in December to deliver a speech that shocked Europeans. “Multilateralism has too often become viewed as an end…