When US president Donald Trump began his second term in office, it was on the promise of putting “America first”.
For many of his MAGA supporters, that meant rejecting interventionist policies that had overextended the country’s military commitments across the globe.
His National Security Strategy, published last year, promised that “the affairs of other countries are our concern only if their activities directly threaten our interests”.
But since his return last January, the US commander-in-chief has pursued an aggressive foreign policy, greenlighting military strikes on multiple countries, seizing oil tankers and overseeing the shock overnight capture of Nicolas Maduro that led to the decapitation of the Venezuelan government.
Hellbound and Down 