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

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I'm Jerry Baker, editor at large of the journal.

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This week, we're going to take another look at Donald Trump's

grand strategy in a time of extraordinary diplomatic and some might say undiplomatic activity

at the first few weeks of the Trump administration, everything from Ukraine and Russia,

the Middle East, China, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Greenland. Amidst all this activity, can we detect

the makings of a strategic project that might define Donald Trump's second term? As he seems to be

picking fights with allies over trade and tariffs and over war in Europe, while seeking new

partnerships with old adversaries like Russia,

is perhaps the outline of a new order emerging. Or is Trump, in fact, simply recognizing that a

new order has already been born or is in the process of being born, and he's just simply

seeking to seize and shape it.

Well, my guest this week has a fascinating take on all this, on Trump Grand Strategy and Foreign Policy,

and particularly on an interesting historical precedent that may be very relevant.

Nadia Shadlow is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and co-chair of the Hamilton Commission

on securing America's

national security innovation base. Dr. Shadlow served as U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor for

strategy in the first Trump term, and in that capacity she led the drafting and the publication of

the 2017 National Security Strategy of the United States. In her latest piece in the journal The National

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