The Trump vision, in fact, is an America unbound by a half-century of trade deals, free to pursue a nationalistic approach in which success is measured not by the quality of its alliances but the economic return on its transactions. David E. Sanger Read Quote
Mr. Trump has been consistent in some areas. Since the late 1980s, he has nurtured a set of preoccupations, chiefly that America’s allies – Japan and Saudi Arabia among them – are ripping America off. David E. Sanger Read Quote
Although Mr. Trump will not be able to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord, he can legally ignore its provisions, in keeping with his questioning of the existence of man-made climate change. David E. Sanger Read Quote
In an age of reckonings, when so many bills have come due, Obama has made the case for an America that can no longer do it all. It must pick its fights. David E. Sanger Read Quote
When confronted with a direct threat to American security, Obama has shown he is willing to act unilaterally – in a targeted, get-in-and-get-out fashion, that avoids, at all costs, the kind of messy ground wars and lengthy occupations that have drained America’s treasury and spirit for the past decades. David E. Sanger Read Quote
The government does not deny it routinely spies to advance American economic advantage, which is part of its broad definition of how it protects American national security. David E. Sanger Read Quote
State oil companies in Saudi Arabia, Africa, Iran, and Mexico have often been intelligence targets for the United States. David E. Sanger Read Quote
There’s this incredibly young, dynamic, educated population in Iran that is essentially pretty pro-American. David E. Sanger Read Quote
Because our government has been so incompetent at protecting its highly sophisticated cyberweapons, those weapons have been stolen out of the electronic vaults of the National Security Agency and the C.I.A. and shot right back at us. David E. Sanger Read Quote
Cyberattacks have long been hard to stop because determining where they come from takes time – and sometimes the mystery is never solved. David E. Sanger Read Quote
