While partisan battles dominate headlines, U.S. foreign policy remains strikingly consistent across administrations. Many realists and non-interventionists were cautiously optimistic about Donald Trump’s second term bringing some modicum of restraint to foreign policy. Thus far, the Trump administration has yet to wrap up the Russo-Ukrainian war, which on the campaign trail he vowed to end in twenty-four hours. Additionally, the Trump administration continues to subsidize and provide diplomatic cover to Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza, saber rattle against Iran, and is pivoting, albeit in...
