So how do you think these issues can be fixed further on in the future?

We spent, we the United States, and I am not a member of the government anymore, but we the United States made it a core part of our foreign policy, of our national interest to develop alliances around the world following World War II.

That was the core of our diplomacy, was build as many friends and alliances and partners as we possibly could for mutual purposes, NATO being the strongest, but not the only one.

One of the parts of this is, I will often tell my students that diplomacy is really just good manners taken to a global stage, your grandmother would be pleased kind of thing.

And you treat people with respect.

You talk with them, not at them.

You don't trash talk them.

How should foreign policy be designed so that it is flexible enough to survive real-world implementations? And what mistakes does Washington often make when it turns broad strategic goals into actual policy?