The US magazine Foreign Policy has written a report on US President Donald Trump and how he handled his first year of rule with the wars and conflicts he inherited with his presidency of the United States.
"President Trump promised to spread peace around the world, but in view of his first year in office, he expanded the scope of all the wars he inherited from former presidents," the magazine said.
In March, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson defended his proposal to cut the external operations budget by 31 percent. "Over time, there will be fewer military conflicts in which the United States will participate directly." But a few weeks ago, "The return of budget figures reflects the expectation that we will succeed in some of these areas of conflict, with the possibility of resolving these conflicts," he said.
The magazine argued that there was no need for Tilerson's remarks, as his ambitions that the United States would engage in fewer wars and achieve greater peace had not materialized. Indeed, the Trump administration has shown no interest in reducing US military commitments and interventions, and has not committed itself to any meaningful way to prevent or resolve conflicts.
Moreover, the lines of the trend towards peace in 2017 are actually in the opposite direction. President Trump has maintained the wars he inherited from his predecessor, and we can say that he has expanded them.
As Jennifer Wilson pointed out in a column published last August by the magazine, "Donald Trump drops bombs at unprecedented levels." We find that within eight months of taking office, Trump
- announcing the launch of six air strikes in Libya - bombing all the countries avoided by former President Barack Obama in eight years. A month later, the Trump administration exceeded 26,172 bombs dropped during 2016, and by the end of December 2017, Trump had more air strikes in Somalia in one year and 33 air strikes, surpassing the number of strikes by President George W. Bush And Obama since the United States began to intervene for the first time there in early 2007, which amounted to 30 air strikes.
The surge in air strikes has been accompanied by a greater increase in civilian deaths, but as air strikes and deaths have increased, Trump's administration has made no progress in US wars. Moreover, there is no need to say that the United States has any role in supporting diplomatic results. For example, in the US-backed air war in Yemen, Defense Secretary James Matisse said, "Our goal is that this crisis can be delivered to a team of negotiators Under the auspices of the United Nations ". The comments come as the United States has the greatest influence among all parties to mediate an end to the 33-month civil war.
President Trump has also repeatedly threatened preemptive strikes against the nuclear-armed North and threatened to end Iran's nuclear deal, which he described as "the worst deal ever." He could do so in mid-January by refusing to certify that Iran was fulfilling its obligations under the agreement, even though the IAEA had ratified Iran's commitment to the agreement.