Council on Foreign Relations 125d ago

“Trump is like Hernán Cortés. When Hernán Cortés unloads his troops and his horses onto the beaches of Mexico . . . what does he do? He burns his ships in order to tell his men there is no going back,” says Thomas Shannon Jr., senior international policy advisor at Arnold & Porter and former U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs. “What the president is doing is burning our ships, not only within our bureaucratic structures but also more broadly.” Subscribe to our channel: https://goo.gl/WCYsH7 This work represents the views and opinions solely of the author. The Council on Foreign Relations is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher, and takes no institutional positions on matters of policy. Visit the CFR website: http://www.cfr.org Follow CFR on X: http://www.twitter.com/cfr_org Follow CFR on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/councilonforeignrelations/