Is Trump’s peace through strength-maxxing actually effective?

For a commander in chief seeking to fashion himself as a peacemaker, President Donald Trump has showcased a staggering display of America’s military might that’s already started to push non-interventionists out of his 2024 coalition.

In his first year of his second term, his administration has killed dozens of alleged narco-terrorists in the Caribbean, surged American weapons to Ukraine, threatened to go into Nigeria “guns-a-blazing,” and signed submarine and shipbuilding agreements with allies in the Indo-Pacific that have a clear long-term focus on countering China’s own forces in the region.