Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Signal Chat Blunder Shows Pitfalls of Trump’s Ad Hoc Approach to Foreign Policy

 https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-signal-chat-journalist-foreign-policy-e91cb838?mod=hp_lead_pos1

The administration has struggled to translate Trump’s promise of quick results into early wins

Texts by President Trump’s advisers about whether to attack Houthi militants in Yemen underscored the ad hoc nature of the administration’s national security deliberations, a mode that has sometimes left allies bewildered and his own aides at odds.

Other presidents have relied on the State Department, Pentagon and National Security Council staff to develop and filter options in an orderly manner. The Trump team has operated in a far less orthodox fashion, one that stems from the president’s impatience with debate and skepticism of bureaucracy. Many of his top advisers, few of whom have held senior positions before, share that perspective.

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