US EditionWith bombs and bravado, Trump puts his own stamp on Reagan's 'peace through strength' mantle
Trump uses military strikes, tariffs, and troop deployments to deter adversaries and maintain peace through strength, echoing Reagan's doctrine, with the largest Latin America troop buildup in 50 years.
- This past week, President Donald Trump deployed a Reagan-style 'peace through strength' agenda nine months into his second term, canceling trade talks with Canada and imposing a 10% tariff during his Asia trip.
- Borrowing Ronald Reagan's doctrine, the administration says a strong military and economy underpin deterrence, framing success as winning battles, ending wars, and avoiding new conflicts, President Donald Trump said in his inaugural address.
- U.S. forces conducted lethal strikes in the Pacific while President Donald Trump met leaders in Malaysia and South Korea, the Navy repositioned the USS Ford near Venezuela, and Trump says he ordered June strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities amid recent U.N. watchdog activity.
- Analysts say the administration's short, sharp actions have incurred little political cost so far, as strikes in the Caribbean hit Venezuelan drug smugglers and unsettled President Nicolás Maduro's government.
- Ian Kelly and others say the effort shows a lack of process with limited consultation, administration officials argue abrupt shifts increase U.S. leverage but raise consistency concerns, and President Donald Trump remains opaque on nuclear testing.
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Trump’s Mistaken Peace and Cues
[fusion_dropcap boxed="no" boxed_radius="" class="" id="" color="" hue="" saturation="" lightness="" alpha="" text_color=""]S[/fusion_dropcap]peak softly and carry a big stick is an expression popularized by Theodore Roosevelt. It represents a variant of ‘peace through strength’, a slogan used by President Reagan and now by Trump. It is a fairly unremarkable abstraction. Churchill gave a version in a parliamentary speech after the end of WWII wh…
Not long ago, President Donald Trump spoke of building a legacy as a “peacemaker.” His administration would measure “success not only by the battles we win,” Trump said in his inaugural address, “but also by the wars we end—and, perhaps most importantly, the wars we never enter.”
How Trump Put His Own Stamp On Reagan's 'Peace Through Strength' Mantle
Trump's administration would measure "success not only by the battles we win," Trump said in his inaugural address, "but also by the wars that we end - and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into."
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With bombs and bravado, Trump puts his own stamp on Reagan's 'peace through strength' mantle
It wasn’t so long ago that President Donald Trump spoke of building a legacy as a peacemaker. In his inaugural address, he said he would in part measure his success by “the wars that we end — and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.”
U.S. President Donald Trump's views on Reagan's doctrine include more severe threats, bombings, and a lot of bravada. It's too early to say how history will appreciate Trump's version, but Reagan also had his skeptics, wrote Associated Press. "A lot of people would give Reagan an unsatisfactory rating around 1983," said a scientist at Tennessee Andrew Bush University, recalling the year when Reagan ordered the US invasion of Grenada's Caribbean …
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