Trump's foreign policy 'I win, you lose' approach spells failure everywhere

Never has a US president so utterly failed in foreign policy endeavors as Donald Trump. A blessing for Trump (but a curse for everyone he encounters), Trump combined his father's inherited wealth with his personal charisma, unlimited greed and craven ruthlessness to create a fabulous lifestyle of wealth, privilege and public adulation. Little noticed in the Trump wake were the little people and small businesses scattered like so many pins in the path of Trump's reckless business bowling ball.

Historians will be debating Trump's inexplicable rise to the presidency for decades. But there is no debate over his utter failure to translate his corrupt business and entertainment acumen to US foreign policy. So many countries; so many failures.

The worst is his blowing up the 5 + 1 Iran nuclear deal, signaling his true motive of regime change to serve the interests of the US war party and the countries that virtually dictate US foreign policy: Saudi Arabia and Israel. This move, among others, prompted the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists to move the Doomsday Clock to two minutes to Midnight (nuclear winter), the closest to Doomsday since 1953.

Trump ignores calls from Congress; indeed the world, to end US support of Saudi Arabia's genocidal war against neighbor Yemen which has killed over 60,000 and sentenced millions to disease and starvation. Trump's rationale? We can't alienate our best weapons customer and ally in Iran regime change.

Trump looked at Obama's sensible, long over rapprochement with Cuba and said "Bad deal". His fix was simply to further hurt American tourists and business by restricting personal US travel and ending plans for US investment there currently being gobbled up by the rest of the industrialized world.

Trump reviewed the 20 year long US effort to destabilize the hated socialist regime in Venezuela and concluded "Not good enough", embarking on increased sanctions and threatened war to install US puppet Juan Gaido who will make Venezuela safe for rapacious US capitalism.

Instead of promoting peace and justice between Israel and their subjugated Palestinian captives, Trump blew up the peace process by recognizing Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, reducing aid to the starving, destitute Palestinians, and remaining mute as Israeli soldiers shoot down Palestinian protesters at the border.

Trump utterly squandered his one chance at international success; his historic June, 2018, summit with North Korean leader with Kim Jung-un, a diplomatic breakthrough unattained by 11 previous presidents going back to the 1953 Korean War armistice. But instead of doing diplomacy, Trump did grandstanding, declaring the North Korean nuclear threat resolved; even promoting himself for the Nobel Peace Prize. His second go at personal diplomacy blew up without a single agreement over Trump's signature negotiating style of 'I win, you lose'. For the past year Jong-un has made numerous concessions while the US keeps all sanctions solidly in place. Jong-un, no fool, told the Art of the Deal to paint his mission a failure.

Alas, unlike TV huckster Trump who can declare to one of his un-reality show pawns "Your fired" in a heartbeat, the American people must wait an excruciating 600 more days.