Resigning from the job of world policeman is harder than it seems. When fighting broke out between India and Pakistan last week, the first reactions of the leading figures in the Trump administration were in line with “America first” principles.
J.D. Vance said the US was not going to get involved in a conflict that was “fundamentally none of our business”. The US vice president continued: “We can’t control these countries … America can’t tell the Indians to lay down their arms. We can’t tell the Pakistanis to lay down their arms.”
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Gideon Rachman is chief foreign affairs columnist for the Financial Times. His particular interests include American foreign policy, the European Union and globalisation.
