From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is the best of Free Expression with Jerry Baker.

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What would Trump administration two foreign policy look like?

Well, this week I'm pleased to say I'm joined by someone who knows a good deal about that.

Robert O'Brien, who's a national security advisor to President Trump from 2019 to 2021. Of course,

in that role, he played a crucial part in all the big foreign policy decisions, some of them

quite controversial, the last two years of the Trump administration.

He's written widely on foreign policy and governing, advocating for a forceful America-first approach

to the world, most notably in his 2016 book, While America Slept, Restoring American Leadership

to a World in Crisis. Before joining the Trump administration, he was an international lawyer,

and after leaving the White House, he founded a consulting firm American Global Strategies. Let's move to the other big

international crisis conflict that President Trump would inherit if he takes office in January,

and that's obviously Russia, Ukraine. He's repeatedly said he could bring peace to that conflict in 24

hours. If he's serious about that, you can tell us about whether

you think he's serious, that would have to involve some kind of freezing in place, would it not

of the current battle lines that they have, which would essentially involve agreeing to let Russia

hold on to large swathes of Ukrainian territory. Is that what you expect President Trump to do?

Jerry, going back to your introduction, I think what I expect President Trump to do both

with the Middle East and with Ukraine is to return to a peace or strength posture for the United

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