President-elect Donald Trump believes that a zero-sum world of power politics is more helpful for US interests, former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Daniel Fried says.
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00:00threatening Canada, making it the 51st state of the United States.
00:05I mean, what's your overall reading of this approach to foreign policy?
00:10What's the plan? Is there a plan?
00:12I have two levels of answer.
00:14On one level, this is President-elect Trump trolling
00:20and making himself the centre of attention
00:23and throwing things out and watching people scramble.
00:27You know, it's designed to gain some tactical advantage,
00:31to throw other countries off their game,
00:34and to create confusion and an atmosphere of intimidation
00:38to see what he can get.
00:40At a deeper level, Donald Trump seems to believe
00:45that a zero-sum world of power politics in perpetuity
00:51is better for American interests.
00:53I don't think so.
00:55I think that the genius of American strategy
00:59was that we would actually work with other countries,
01:02not because we were naive or not because we believed in charity,
01:06but because we believed that this would allow us
01:10to advance our interests more effectively.