How Donald Trump thinks about foreign policy

Trump actually has a philosophy on foreign policy, and its terrifying. Subscribe to our channel! Donald Trump’s coziness with Vladimir Putin, casual talk of taking Iraq’s oil and abandoning NATO, and muddled messaging on whether he’d deploy American troops to battle ISIS makes it easy to assume that the GOP nominee’s foreign policy is a jumbled mishmash of ideas lacking any coherent philosophy. That couldn’t be more wrong. In fact, a close look at Trump’s public comments leads to a very different conclusion: Trump has a distinct worldview that knits together many of his specific proposals. We can sum it up in a word: transactional. is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what’s really driving the events in the headlines. Check out to get up to speed on everything from Kurdistan to the Kim Kardashian app. Check out our full video catalog: Follow Vox on Tw