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Donald Trump's Foreign Policy: Method in his Madness?

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Donald Trump: Rewriting American Foreign Policy   Is there a method in his unconventional ways? When Donald Trump was elected into the White House in November 2016, there was a cloud of uncertainty over the direction American foreign policy would take under his leadership. After all, the United States was getting deeply involved in the Syrian conflict and had seen its ties with Russia reach a dangerously new low, perhaps the lowest since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Today, President Trump’s foreign policy remains the most hotly debated aspect of his presidency, with many claiming that his unconventional methods have succeeded so far. One of the key aspects of Trump’s foreign policy seems to be a certain degree of flexibility over the United States’ stance on geopolitical issues. The first indicator of this was the decision to launch airstrikes against the Syrian government in April 2017. The United States launched 59 tomahawk missiles aimed at government-controlled