Trump didn’t change foreign policy the first time around; the deep state is too powerful. There’s no reason to think foreign policy will change if he gets a second term. From Caitlin Johnstone at caitlinjohnstone.com:
Trump has been campaigning on the claim that he can end the Ukraine war in a day if re-elected, but there is no actual reason to believe that’s true.
Vladimir Putin said at the Eastern Economic Forum on Tuesday that he wouldn’t expect any meaningful changes in US policy toward Russia if former president Donald Trump secures re-election next year.
TASS reports the following on the Russian president’s comments:
“I think there will be no fundamental changes regarding Russia in US foreign policy, no matter who is elected president,” Putin said. “Mr. [Donald] Trump (ex-president and Republican Party candidate — TASS) says he will solve acute problems, including the Ukrainian crisis, in a few days, this can only please. Nevertheless, he too imposed sanctions on Russia during his presidency,” Putin recalled.
The US, according to the Russian president, “views Russia as a permanent adversary, or even an enemy, and has hammered this into the heads of ordinary Americans.” “The current authorities have tuned American society into an anti-Russian vein and spirit — that’s what it’s all about. They have done it, and now it will be very difficult to somehow turn this ship in the other direction,” Putin said.
This is not the first time Putin has made such comments. When Oliver Stone asked him in an interview during Trump’s presidency what has changed from administration to administration in the four US presidents he’d gone through during his leadership, Putin replied, “Almost nothing. Your bureaucracy is very strong and it is that bureaucracy that rules the world.”
It’s not just the deep state bureaucracy, but the corruption. Congress authorizes massive amounts of money to be given to the armaments industry which in turn gives backhanders to members of Congress in one way or another — and to who else? Retired US Colonel Douglas Macgregor has given some very insightful commentary of the whole war machine which can be found on YouTube.