Will it be ‘America First’ or ‘America Only’ that gets the upper hand in the Trump administration?

The fight over American foreign policy didn’t end with Kamala Harris’s defeat. Yes, President Trump has picked strong supporters of the US-Israel relationship as secretaries of state and defence, national security adviser, and ambassadors to Israel and the United Nations. However, Trump’s dovish supporters haven’t disappeared and an intra-coalition struggle over the direction of foreign policy appears to be playing out in defence department staffing… Commenting on recent appointments, Jason Brodsky, policy director at United Against Nuclear Iran, said: “America is a global power with global interests...US adversaries like Iran... and their anti-Americanism and push to eradicate the State of Israel will not change, despite the desire of some Americans to deprioritise the Middle East”. As for the risk of war with Iran, he added: “Despite apocalyptic predictions of the US being dragged into a larger war if Israel were to pursue Hezbollah aggressively and hit Iran directly, it never came to pass.”