What Donald Trump means by 'Peace with Strength'
American allies can only hope that the Republican president-elect will not make the United States isolationist, like the presidents of the 1920s.
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EARLY signals are emerging that President-elect Donald Trump's foreign policy of "Peace with Strength" will not isolate America from the wider world. He will remain globally engaged - but he will frighten enemies as he embarks on a massive peacetime buildup of US military forces.
Mr Trump is expected to urge (and even bully) America's allies to shoulder a fair share of their defence burden, and likely to revise Washington's trade pacts with foreign countries so that the United States stands to gain from these treaties.
Soon after Mr Trump's election, one of the vice-chairmen of his transition team, Rudy Giuliani, loftily commented last Sunday that the main thrust of the Trump foreign policy would be "Peace with Strength", especially in his dealings with Russia. "Peace with Strength", he explained, meant that Mr Trump would dramatically increase the size of the US military, and that the US would negotiate with Russia from a position of strength.
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