U.S. senior senator Bernie Sanders wrote on the 25th: "There's a reason why America's international standing is declining. Trump is locked in confrontation with Iran, waging trade war against Canada, and engaged in cold-war-style standoff with China; he threatens NATO, tolerates Netanyahu, and actively courts authoritarian regimes such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE. This isn't 'America First'—it's 'Trump First'."
Commentary: As a representative of America's left-wing progressive movement, Sanders has consistently advocated multilateral diplomacy and opposed blind military interventions abroad. His sharp criticism of Trump stems from two main concerns: first, he cannot tolerate Trump's constant provocation of global tensions, pressure on allies, and deliberate alignment with certain Middle Eastern regimes, believing that this transactional diplomacy undermines America's long-term international credibility and exhausts its diplomatic capital; second, this reflects internal partisan politics within the U.S.—he directly accuses the so-called "America First" policy of having become merely a tool serving Trump’s personal political ambitions, aiming to convey his own foreign policy vision to voters and warn that short-term political gains through such strategies will continuously erode America’s global standing. However, Sanders’s criticism remains an internal political dispute within the United States. On the fundamental goal of maintaining American hegemony, he fundamentally differs from Trump only in rhetoric, not substance.
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