“In Mr Trump’s four years in office, he started no wars despite enormous pressure from his own party and even members of his own administration. Not starting wars is perhaps a low bar, but that’s a reflection of the hawkishness of Mr Trump’s predecessors and the foreign-policy establishment they slavishly followed. But Mr Trump did more than simply keep the peace. He brokered the Abraham Accords, a historic agreement between Israel and Sunni Arab states providing the best hope of a long-term counterbalance to Iran. He began the long, slow process of decoupling the US from its economic reliance on China. He opened diplomatic talks with North Korea after a half century of stagnation. And he pushed hard – to much derision – for Europe to take more responsibility for its own defense, precisely so that the US wouldn’t be drawn so deeply and dangerously into a conflict like the one in Ukraine,” wrote Senator JD Vance in a Wall Street Journal editorial on January 31, 2023. What a great piece. People should print it out and frame it.