U.S President Donald Trump walks past soldiers during a visit to U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base February 6, 2017 in Tampa, Florida. Sgt. Alan Belser/Zuma Press/PA Images. All rights reserved.
The first quarter of President Donald Trump’s mandate has shown that “America First” motto is, in reality, “Warriors First”. Since January 2017 the United States emphasis on military muscle, country-censuring, and pugnacious posturing –an emphasis that was already evident since the end of the Cold War and even more after September 11— has been accentuated. Trump is not an isolationist but a President willing to deploy its own version of primacy in times of eroding US hegemony. If primacy can be summarized as a grand strategy by which Washington does not tolerate, and must prevent, the rise of a serious challenger to US preponderance, then President George W. Bush played it vehemently, President Barack Obama tried to somehow calibrate it, and President Trump opted for an arrogant and aggressive version. Several indications point in that direction.
The first quarter of President Donald Trump’s mandate has shown that “America First” motto is, in reality, “Warriors First”.
