Trump swings hard at Oman and South Korea, but his foreign policy misses are piling up
Trump had on Sunday announced the US would scale back military drills with South Korea, a US ally since the 1950s, citing the cost; the fact that Seoul declined to participate in the war on Iran; and a desire not to upset Kim — a tyrant.
Trump claimed that despite the thousands of US troops in his country, South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung would “rather not get involved” in Iran.
But the danger for Trump is that his failure to end the war with Iran on his own terms is exposing the flaws in his foreign policy approach and creating a broader image of incompetence just as his popularity erodes at home.
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