The Top 10 Trump Administration Foreign-Policy Mistakes

Let’s admit it: It’s hard not to watch a video of a plane crash or a building demolition, and one feels the same disturbing fascination watching the Trump administration’s handling of U.S. foreign policy. We have front-row seats to the greatest voluntary liquidation of a great power’s status and geopolitical influence in modern history: The results are dramatic and alarming, but it’s almost impossible to look away. And it’s been less than eight months. So many bad things have happened that even full-time foreign-policy mavens have trouble keeping track of all of them. Do you even remember Signalgate? As a public service, therefore, today I offer my top 10 Trump administration foreign-policy blunders (so far).