Tag: Foreign Policy Restraint

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Restraint Foreign Policy in 2025: Five Successes and Five Failures

In 2025, the “America First” foreign policy yielded a contradictory scorecard of five successes and five failures. While the administration successfully pivoted toward a more realistic National Security Strategy and engaged in pragmatic diplomacy with Russia, Belarus, and the Houthis, it simultaneously stumbled into escalatory patterns in Iran, Venezuela, and Syria.

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