<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist.]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. On the contrary, MAGA ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve the interests of American crypto, mineral and tech companies, especially if they have links to the president. They think of themselves as "the vanguard of a movement that will alter not just America, but the world."<br />Read "Empire of Grift",  my Atlantic cover story, here (gift link)<br /><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/10/maga-foreign-policy/688352/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3w3onHNSnF53FTCE5KWWZBg" rel="nofollow noopener"><span>https://www.</span><span>theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/</span><span>10/maga-foreign-policy/688352/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3w3onHNSnF53FTCE5KWWZBg</span></a></p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/d7636fd0-cfd1-41a4-ad82-a3a1ccde6075/american-foreign-policy-under-trump-is-not-isolationist.</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 04:46:48 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/d7636fd0-cfd1-41a4-ad82-a3a1ccde6075.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:24:01 GMT</pubDate><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:06:48 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/anneapplebaum%40journa.host">@<span>anneapplebaum</span></a></span> <br />Amazing article! Thank You for writing and gifting it! Very much appreciated.</p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/goulien/statuses/117292191508333684</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/goulien/statuses/117292191508333684</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[goulien@mastodon.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:06:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 07:42:23 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/anneapplebaum%40journa.host">@<span>anneapplebaum</span></a></span> This is an excellent piece. It really hammers down the fact that to a large extent democatic processes are not working in the US anymore, and that we should treat this as an actual political revolution of a certain class of rich people against democracy. </p><p>Also thr threat to Europe and democratic nations elsewhere, which is coming from from the US, has already leveled up to an active political interference campaign, already effecting our societies.</p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/gimulnautti/statuses/117290915846442615</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/gimulnautti/statuses/117290915846442615</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[gimulnautti@mastodon.green]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 07:42:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 07:22:44 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/anneapplebaum%40journa.host">@<span>anneapplebaum</span></a></span> welcome to the new world order</p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/MamaLake/statuses/117290838523095693</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/MamaLake/statuses/117290838523095693</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[mamalake@beige.party]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 07:22:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 07:08:31 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/anneapplebaum%40journa.host">@<span>anneapplebaum</span></a></span> </p><p>Thanks for this great article.</p><p>National Security Strategy is clear on planned US energy dominance of the world and an explanation for Venezuela, Iran, Canada, Greenland and Europe as a consumer (EU Trade Deal - 750 billion for energy imports from US). They have no sense of shame.</p><p>„Restoring American energy dominance (in oil, gas, coal, and nuclear) and reshoring the necessary key energy<br />components is a top strategic priority. ….<br />Expanding our net energy exports will also deepen relationships with<br />allies while curtailing the influence of adversaries, protect our ability<br />to defend our shores, and—when and where necessary—enables us to<br />project power. We reject the disastrous “climate change” and “Net<br />Zero” ideologies that have so greatly harmed Europe, threaten the<br />United States, and subsidize our adversaries.“</p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://graz.social/users/c_ozwei/statuses/117290782675818774</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://graz.social/users/c_ozwei/statuses/117290782675818774</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[c_ozwei@graz.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 07:08:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 06:01:21 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/anneapplebaum%40journa.host">@<span>anneapplebaum</span></a></span> That article reads as a whose who of the political underworld. Take solace in that the ultras through their greed are becoming fewer and fewer, and their thugs are cowards without their arms. Now that their dirty hands are out in the open, they have made themselves easy targets. Money is debt after all, and theirs is the most toxic and acrid! <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/JusticeWins" rel="tag">#<span>JusticeWins</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/TheReckoning" rel="tag">#<span>TheReckoning</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/HomunculusHydra" rel="tag">#<span>HomunculusHydra</span></a></p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://universeodon.com/users/Dialectician/statuses/117290518575581005</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://universeodon.com/users/Dialectician/statuses/117290518575581005</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[dialectician@universeodon.com]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 06:01:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 05:54:28 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/arniepix%40masto.nyc">@<span>arniepix</span></a></span> yes, the East India Company is a similar model</p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://journa.host/users/anneapplebaum/statuses/117290491468829213</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://journa.host/users/anneapplebaum/statuses/117290491468829213</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[anneapplebaum@journa.host]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 05:54:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 05:52:46 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/missconstrue%40mefi.social">@<span>MissConstrue</span></a></span> that's ok! I can make as many gift links as I want...</p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://journa.host/users/anneapplebaum/statuses/117290484781616019</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://journa.host/users/anneapplebaum/statuses/117290484781616019</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[anneapplebaum@journa.host]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 05:52:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 05:37:18 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/anneapplebaum%40journa.host">@<span>anneapplebaum</span></a></span> esp. bad as trumb and muskx are supporting freaktionary / fascist elements in other countries  (in GER -&gt; afd, in LatinAmerica -&gt; the chainSaw guy with the chain-saw inventor fernando <a href="https://nfdi.social/tags/cerimedo" rel="tag">#<span>cerimedo</span></a> ) </p><p>and the EU is even coping with the kutcher_ai_web_control network ()aka <a href="https://nfdi.social/tags/thorn" rel="tag">#<span>thorn</span></a> &amp; friends</p><p><a href="https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-08-26/bolivia-opens-investigation-into-former-presidential-advisor-for-alleged-links-to-drug-trafficking.html" rel="nofollow noopener"><span>https://</span><span>english.elpais.com/internation</span><span>al/2026-08-26/bolivia-opens-investigation-into-former-presidential-advisor-for-alleged-links-to-drug-trafficking.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://nfdi.social/tags/maga_fools" rel="tag">#<span>maga_fools</span></a> <br />or bettter <br /><a href="https://nfdi.social/tags/maga_grifters" rel="tag">#<span>maga_grifters</span></a></p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://nfdi.social/users/erio7/statuses/117290423943751557</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://nfdi.social/users/erio7/statuses/117290423943751557</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[erio7@nfdi.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 05:37:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 04:15:51 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<span><a href="/user/anneapplebaum%40journa.host" rel="ugc">@<span>anneapplebaum</span></a></span> That. Is. Really. Good. Journalism. Woah. Thank you for writing.]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://donotsta.re/objects/d8a7c666-a9dc-494b-a41b-7eb0ea80f0ab</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://donotsta.re/objects/d8a7c666-a9dc-494b-a41b-7eb0ea80f0ab</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[multisn8@donotsta.re]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 04:15:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 03:47:23 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/anneapplebaum%40journa.host">@<span>anneapplebaum</span></a></span><br />Not very different, really, than the 16th and 17th century trading companies formed to extract sugar, spices, fur, etc from colonies. Like the Dutch East India or Hudson Bay companies.</p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://masto.nyc/users/arniepix/statuses/117289991750018159</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://masto.nyc/users/arniepix/statuses/117289991750018159</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[arniepix@masto.nyc]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 03:47:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 01:19:03 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>2/</p><p>" ...world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. </p><p>These are the iron laws of the world that have existed since the beginning of time.” </p><p>Miller’s words surely appealed to the business leaders who are delighted to see the tools of American government and diplomacy being redeployed, not to build a world that’s safe for democracy, or even safe for Americans, but to create a world that’s profitable for them."</p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Npars01/statuses/117289408516447440</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Npars01/statuses/117289408516447440</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[npars01@mstdn.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 01:19:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 01:17:30 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/anneapplebaum%40journa.host">@<span>anneapplebaum</span></a></span> </p><p>This is what happens when 6 dynasties fund the purchase of a corrupt US Supreme Court &amp; crooked Congress.</p><p><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-map-north-america-us-territory/" rel="nofollow noopener"><span>https://www.</span><span>politico.eu/article/donald-tru</span><span>mp-map-north-america-us-territory/</span></a></p><p>Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife, Mellon, Seid, Uihlein - building an international system of oligarchic rule &amp; an economy that only serves The Moneyed.</p><p><a href="https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-2025-billionaire-donor-heritage-foundation-donald-trump-jd-vance-charles-koch-peter-coors/" rel="nofollow noopener"><span>https://www.</span><span>desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-</span><span>2025-billionaire-donor-heritage-foundation-donald-trump-jd-vance-charles-koch-peter-coors/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.desmog.com/2025/01/21/mapped-donald-trump-transatlantic-anti-green-network/" rel="nofollow noopener"><span>https://www.</span><span>desmog.com/2025/01/21/mapped-d</span><span>onald-trump-transatlantic-anti-green-network/</span></a></p><p>"White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller told CNN’s Jake Tapper in January, “but we live in a ..."</p><p>1/</p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Npars01/statuses/117289402373532483</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Npars01/statuses/117289402373532483</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[npars01@mstdn.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 01:17:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:58:01 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/anneapplebaum%40journa.host">@<span>anneapplebaum</span></a></span> <br />It's not enough to beat them, they need to be annihilated at the polls.<br />Dems need to quit the petty bickering among themselves and focus on the true danger.</p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ilust606/statuses/117289325817418180</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ilust606/statuses/117289325817418180</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[ilust606@mastodon.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:58:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:42:28 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/anneapplebaum%40journa.host">@<span>anneapplebaum</span></a></span> </p><p>Oh, and also, it is funny how they are international cabal not quite seeking a one world government, but uniformity in object tyranny.</p><p>It’s still every accusation is a confession</p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://masto.ai/users/GhostOnTheHalfShell/statuses/117289264669112328</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://masto.ai/users/GhostOnTheHalfShell/statuses/117289264669112328</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:42:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:41:09 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/anneapplebaum%40journa.host">@<span>anneapplebaum</span></a></span> </p><p>Oh yes, these are the guys who chose to go to war with Iran and lost. The sovereign individuals who are of course the world’s “cognitive elite” destined to rule over the universe as digital gods, Have demonstrated that they are very good At waging war on us from the White House, but every other autocrat out there looks only to their interest they have no loyalty.</p><p>These dumb dumbs in the US are playing checker at the international game of poker where everyone is cheating</p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://masto.ai/users/GhostOnTheHalfShell/statuses/117289259499342416</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://masto.ai/users/GhostOnTheHalfShell/statuses/117289259499342416</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:41:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:24:36 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/anneapplebaum%40journa.host" rel="nofollow noopener">@<span>anneapplebaum</span></a></span> I use the shorthand "VIP lanes" to describe their strategy of impunity. "Making the world safe for corruption" is exactly what I have in mind when I think of that.</p><p>edit: obviously, I should add the hashtag...</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/VIPLanes" rel="tag">#<span>VIPLanes</span></a></p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/muddle/statuses/117289194409297006</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/muddle/statuses/117289194409297006</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[muddle@infosec.exchange]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:24:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:21:19 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/anneapplebaum%40journa.host">@<span>anneapplebaum</span></a></span> Few countries have been more pro-American than Ireland. The dismay and revulsion in Ireland at the corruption of the current administration is off the scale. I dined with friends tonight. Everyone counting the days to 3 November and speculating on possible GOP malfeasance (sabotage). Too much to hope there will be proper reckoning and actual jail time.</p><p>Important article. <img src="https://forum.fedi.dk/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f44f.png?v=7979fdcf9c7" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--clap" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title="👏" alt="👏" /></p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/samueljohnson/statuses/117289181493823462</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/samueljohnson/statuses/117289181493823462</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[samueljohnson@mstdn.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:21:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. on Thu, 17 Sep 2026 23:39:52 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/anneapplebaum%40journa.host">@<span>anneapplebaum</span></a></span> This is the most depressing thing I've read in ages. Thank you for this deeply researched and thought-out soul-killer.</p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/spiegelmama/statuses/117289018489817451</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/spiegelmama/statuses/117289018489817451</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[spiegelmama@infosec.exchange]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 23:39:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. on Thu, 17 Sep 2026 23:28:09 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/anneapplebaum%40journa.host">@<span>anneapplebaum</span></a></span> They've already altered the world - right off a fucking cliff -  I hope their air conditioners go out first in the next heat wave they think they're going to skate through while all the unhoused and vulnerable are at heightened risk of perishing en mass</p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/decapitae/statuses/117288972430881089</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/decapitae/statuses/117288972430881089</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[decapitae@mastodon.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 23:28:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. on Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:37:44 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/anneapplebaum%40journa.host">@<span>anneapplebaum</span></a></span> I won't use one of your gift allowances, since I have a sub, but I've made myself a sticky note to go pull it up on the other system. <img src="https://forum.fedi.dk/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f642.png?v=7979fdcf9c7" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--slightly_smiling_face" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title=":)" alt="🙂" /></p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mefi.social/users/MissConstrue/statuses/117288774171345876</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mefi.social/users/MissConstrue/statuses/117288774171345876</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[missconstrue@mefi.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:37:44 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>