Vance’s concerns about the world are rarely rooted in traditional foreign policy issues such as nuclear proliferation, conflict management or, to be more modern, climate change. Dig a little, and you realize that he sees foreign policy largely through the lens of U.S. domestic issues. Often, those issues revolve around economics, class and culture.
The takeaway for one former Latin American diplomat? “He doesn’t really care about the interests of any other country.”
