other than outsourcing the North Korea issue to China, achieving what was predictable results, and, sending four thousand troops into what one hundred thousand troops couldn't do, do we have any notion or hint at what President Trump's strategy is to pursue American interests and how to achieve these seemingly top secret goals within the international arena?
I can remember conservatives being all over President Obama about his foreign policy strategy, even after he explained them umpteen times, yet, nothing from the right nor their media on what exactly is President Trump's foreign policy.
Maybe a conservative can help us out
I think I can identify the source of your confusion. You are obviously looking for some sort of pattern, some consistency, which would reveal an underlying strategy. That is misguided. The Trumpy had declared, early and often, that consistency is for suckers, and he aims at being erratic, and unpredictable. That obviously requires there be no "American interest" in any discernible way, other than the Trumpy's ever changing answer to his persistent question, "What do I get out of it?" It's a whole new era, Archives, and you are supposed to adjust your thinking to the changing reality.
That said, there are certain characteristics of this new era that can be made out. Here's a start:
In the EU, NATO, the UN, numerous trade treaties, or the Paris Agreement, the Trumpy sees so many gangings-up on the poor, widdle U.S., and thus he aims at undermining, and ultimately destroying, these institutions, detrimental to, and meant to exploit, the U.S. Looking at that trajectory, it's just a matter of time (if Bannon hasn't already informed him on that) until the Trumpy will identify the international post-WWII order as largely constructed by, but wholly aimed to weaken, the U.S. Draw your conclusions. The most obvious one, the "author" of The Art of the Deal will, once his mission to divide up the world into individual bit players is complete, make deals so splendid, so beneficial, so profitable, you'll soon tire of seeing terrific deals being made on a daily basis.
Other than that, he does what a real leader is supposed to do, he'll delegate the minor stuff to his underlings, solving Syria is for the Russians to accomplish, the Chinese will have to deal with North Korea, Israel is going to make peace on her own, climate change will take care of itself as it has always done, and, overall, the Pentagon and the senior military staff will be in charge of troop deployments. Minor stuff, as I said, while the Trumpy will occasionally make the rubble bounce in splendid fireworks to celebrate American Greatness, as he did at that Syrian airfield.
