One year into the second Trump administration, an actual US foreign policy remains just a nice idea. View image in fullscreen María Corina Machado presents Donald Trump with her Nobel peace prize medal. And there isn’t that much time.”Trump had a busy year in foreign policy in 2025, capped in January this year by the capture and rendition of the Venezuelan strongman, Nicolás Maduro in a legally dubious raid that Trump presents as a signature foreign policy victory. The only US foreign policy now is one of might makes right, and Trump and his allies have made clear that in their worldview geopolitics is a zero-sum game. In Trump’s new world order, all agreements and alliances can find themselves hostage to the whims of the moment.

Source: The Guardian January 21, 2026 05:59 UTC