Beating the Bad Guys by Becoming Them: Trump's Resource-Grab Foreign Policy
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Will Saletan argues that Trump’s strategy is to outpace rivals by preemptively seizing wealth and resources—pushing for Venezuelan oil extraction with American firms, pursuing control of Greenland, and leveraging mineral deals in Ukraine—essentially beating the bad guys by becoming the bad guys, a trend he views as a dangerous shift in U.S. foreign policy.
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