Next to liberals and illegal immigrants, Trump thinks China is Public Enemy #1. In order to keep Chinese ambitions in check, he will need allies. The basis for his “America First” foreign policy, however, is that our allies are just grifters. As a result, he plans to take steps–abandoning Ukraine and possibly NATO, leaving the Paris Agreement, and imposing universal tariffs–that are designed to alienate our friends, both in Asia and Europe.
I have to assume that Trump believes that American military might and markets are so important to our friends, we can order them about as we see fit. If we make the mistake of electing him, it won’t take long before he is disabused of that notion. “America First,” in practice, means America alone.