Trump’s advisor in Moscow: An alternative for the US

From the point of view of the theory of international relations, Donald Trump regarding US foreign policy conforms to the canons of classical realism. Trump and his advisers conceptualize the US as a nation-state with its own national interests, rather than as a center of the global postmodern empire, as the neocons or core of globalist project under the control of World Government like the liberals. Barack Obama is a classic liberal, while Hillary Clinton actively supported the neo-conservatives.

From the standpoint of the United States Trump may well find common ground with Russia based on common approaches to international relations: the account of national interests, the concept of balance of power, and the supremacy of the principle of sovereignty. Trump is opposed to the interventionist policy and ideology of spreading democracy, which is closely associated with US foreign policy the last few decades. He also rejects the strategy of controlled chaos, promoted by the liberal Obama administration.

Trump views the United States’ interests as a nation state. The continued interventionist policy threatens an "imperial overstretch" and the collapse of the American project under the weight of its commitments and military expenditures. Obama and Clinton promote a military confrontation with Russia and the Third World War. The promotion of globalization and the creation of transpacific and transatlantic free trade zones, as well as the promotion of open borders and free trade policies in the North American continent faces unemployment and falling living standards in the United States. The continued course of unipolar hegemony is dangerous for the US as well as for the rest of the world. Responsible realists who support Trump understand this.