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Trump’s penchant for chaos brings less world order

Venezuelan soldiers staged a show of force in Caracas on Aug. 14 in response to Trump’s remarks

THERE’S NO ONE WAY TO PRODUCE A U.S. foreign policy. “Realists” hew to a pragmatic view of the world. Moralists are more guided by convictions. Academics identify a Hamiltonian school of thought, also a Wilsonian, Jeffersonian and Jacksonian one.

But Donald Trump may be the first President who seems to just make it up on the fly. In the dog days of August, U.S. officials scrambled to brace up

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