John Hardie
Welcome back to the Trump Administration Foreign Policy Tracker. Once a month, we ask FDD’s experts and scholars to assess the administration’s foreign policy. They provide trendlines of very positive, positive, neutral, negative, or very negative for the areas they watch.
President Donald Trump opened negotiations with Moscow by undercutting Ukraine while doing nothing to pressure Russia. Getting a good deal will require the opposite. Then again, Trump has himself admitted he does not “care so much” about the agreement’s specific terms. Rather, as Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg explained, Trump’s chief goals are to end the fighting, disentangle the United States from the war, and “reset relations with Russia.” The silver lining: Europe is now more serious than ever about stepping up.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is looking for around $50 billion in cuts, which the Pentagon says will be reallocated to other defense priorities. The administration reportedly ordered Cyber Command to halt offensive operations against Russia, while dismantling efforts by other agencies to counter foreign malign influence. Trump fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other top officers for political reasons, sending a dangerous message to American service members.
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