Never has a president-elect so roiled American foreign policy before even taking office. On a dizzying range of fronts–Russia, China, Europe, the Middle East– Donald J. Trump has dissented from longstanding U.S. policy, challenged the outgoing president as he has managed America’s international relations, and put in doubt the future of such cornerstones of peaceful international relations as the United Nations and the North Atlantic alliance.
John F. Kennedy did not challenge (nor did he endorse) President Eisenhower’s decision to break diplomatic relations with Cuba on the eve of his inauguration in January 1961, which would lock the United States into …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
