Stengel: Trump, Nikki Haley Following the ‘Tony Soprano Theory of Foreign Policy, that You Extort Your Allies’

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STENGEL: "Sort of Tony Soprano theory of foreign policy, that you extort your allies. The problem, and you guys have been so eloquent this morning, is this complete misunderstanding of the post-Cold War order that we basically set up. We don’t support the U.N. to have people agree with our point of view. We support the U.N. because it will help keep peace. This is the structure that we created that has kept the peace for 50 or 60 years. And they’re looking at it as a way of getting their point of view. The thing that saddens me and hearing, you know, the foreign minister for an autocrat like Erdogan who in some ways puts Trump to shame, is this idea that somehow what made America special no longer does."