We begin today’s roundup with Richard North Patterson at the Boston Globe and his piece about Donald Trump’s lack of any strategy and governing by chaos:
For a time, the now-departed [advisors] ameliorated his worst instincts, protecting special counsel Robert Mueller and preserving the Iran nuclear deal. No more. Trump careens unconstrained from one self-created flashpoint to the next with no sense of consequence or objective grasp of external reality — compelling attention out of sheer fright at what he may do next. The most appalling thing about his unpredictability is its infinity.
Over at Politico, Brent Griffiths summarizes expert analysis on the consequences of Trump’s lack of foreign policy strategy:
President Donald Trump and his administration’s lack of a consistent and coherent foreign policy is confusing U.S. allies and ceding ground to countries that do not share America’s interests, a group of foreign policy experts said at a debate on Monday evening.