During his first term, President Trump memorably declared that “we more and more are not wanting to be the policemen of the world. We’re spending tremendous amounts of money for decades policing the world, and that shouldn’t be the priority.” His MAGA base may justifiably have thought that America, loaded shotgun in hand, was going to hunker down behind its border wall and tariff barriers during a second Trump term.

It hasn’t worked out that way so far. Instead, Trump is doing what U.S. presidents have done since the end of World War II — policing the world.

In just six months, American diplomats helped to negotiate a peace agreement in the decades-long conflict between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Rwanda, claimed credit for “preventing and ending” a war between India and Pakistan and are trying to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

Trump ordered a devastating attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, which even internationalist presidents like Obama and Biden had refrained from doing, and

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