From Paris to New York, we sneer. Interminable handshakes, emissaries from the private sector like Steve Witkoff, cookie cutter: all ready for mockery. It is recalled that he is neither Henry Kissinger nor Zbigniew Brzezinski. Donald Trump does not care. Not diplomat, but a flair negotiator sharpened by business, his instinct has always told him that a war is lost money, spoiled lives, a business to stop.
During his first mandate, he sparked neither a democratic crusade nor shipment in the name of human rights. Let it be said, Donald Trump is not a fellowship, but he is not the isolationist that we describe. His diplomacy does not have the slowness of UN protocols or the varnish of embassy dinners. It works as a haggling. Direct and transactional. Always focused on American interest.
“We are not here to manage the world, but for the world to respect the United States”
Donald Trump constantly hammers him: “We are not here to manage the world, but for the world to respect the United States. »» The image of Anchorage, in Alaska, in the heart of this month of August, is a perfect illustration of its method. On the sidelines of this unprecedented summit on American soil, Donald Trump raised Vladimir Putin in The Beast, armored presidential limousine. An inconceivable scene a few weeks ago, but which says everything about his conviction that relations between nations first go through men.
The results are tangible. In the Red Sea, his pressures led to an extended naval coalition against the Houthis. Since spring, the Pentagon has noted a significant drop in attacks on American and allied merchant ships. In the Middle East, Iran is more isolated than ever, surrounded by a network of consolidated regional alliances. Faced with Beijing, Donald Trump plays the tightrope: punitive customs duties and military strengthening in Indo-Pacific.
In his entourage, we recall that “St hold up on China” Not only is done with destroyers, but also with deals that benefit American industry. Even NATO felt the wind turns. Somed by Donald Trump to increase their defense budgets under threat of American withdrawal, Europeans ended up yielding. At the top of The Hague, in June 2025, the Alliance acted an unprecedented trajectory: collectively carry military and security expenditure to 5 % of GDP by 2035, almost double the current effort. A success that Donald Trump never fails to brandish. To better taunt the old continent.
