Trump looked at the post-World War II arrangement, decided America had been played for a sucker for eighty years, and set out to burn the whole thing down and build something different in its place.

But instead of engaging in endless wars, he’s employing strategies so interconnected that you can't see the shape of it unless you step back far enough. - Glenn Beck

• Start with energy. Trump made the U.S. a net exporter in his first term. In the second, he went further with record production and deregulation...Energy is leverage. Russia and China are losing pricing power as America becomes the dominant supplier of the century without getting dragged into another desert war. Finally, the U.S. can stop playing global babysitter.
• For eighty years, America carried NATO and the Middle East on its back...
• In Greenland, the U.S. secured rare earth minerals and locked in Arctic trade routes, breaking China's grip on the critical minerals that the next century's technology runs on...