The Return of the Four Policemen?

FDR’s Four Policemen Theory Helps Explain Trump’s Foreign Policy Vision

Above: The Allied leaders of the European theatre: Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchillmeeting at the Tehran Conference in 1943. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons.

Will Donald Trump revive Franklin Roosevelt’s dream of four policemen protecting the world?

FDR imagined “the four policemen” keeping the world peace with primary influence over their quadrants of the world: The United States, the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Republic of China.

Could the new “four police officers” soon be the United States, the European Union, Russia, and China?

“The United States is going to take back what was stolen,” Trump said last week, insisting the USA shouldn’t be the sole Super Power called to provide protection (and money) globally, a pattern established 80 years ago.

The new goal: Replace a unilateral one-World Establishment (largely funded and protected militarily by the U.S.), with a balanced yet competitive multilateral world.

Presumably, a fairer division will lead to a more competive global market instead of the current split between haves and have nots.

Palatier CEO Alex Karp said in an interview, “America’s going to become more lethal, more economically strong.”

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