1. United States
2. Ohio
3. Letter

I am writing to urge you to oppose President Trump's emerging foreign policy strategy that prioritizes short-term resource extraction over America's long-term strategic interests and global standing. Trump's approach represents a dangerous departure from decades of successful geopolitical strategy. During the original Cold War from 1947 to 1991, Washington successfully contained the Sino-Soviet communist bloc through NATO forces and bilateral military pacts while maintaining access to global markets through development aid and strategic partnerships. This approach ultimately led to the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991. In contrast, Trump's current tricontinental strategy divides the globe into three regional blocs, ceding Europe's periphery to Russia and Asia to China while focusing American power solely on the Western Hemisphere under what he calls the "Donroe Doctrine." This represents a retreat from Eurasia, the epicenter of geopolitical power, at precisely the moment when Russia and China are expanding their influence. The consequences are already visible. Trump's February 12 phone call with Putin made major concessions before negotiations began, declaring Ukraine's pre-2014 borders and NATO membership "unrealistic." His public berating of Ukrainian President Zelenskyy has weakened our ally and degraded NATO, prompting Europeans to appropriate $160 billion for their own arms industry, reducing American influence. Trump's focus on seizing resources, from rare earths in Ukraine to oil in Venezuela, prioritizes corporate profits over strategic alliances. His January 3 statement that US oil companies would "go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure" in Venezuela reveals a transactional approach that alienates allies throughout Latin America and beyond. This strategy constitutes a self-inflicted defeat in the new Cold War. I urge you to use your position to advocate for a foreign policy that strengthens alliances, maintains American influence across Eurasia, and prioritizes long-term strategic interests over short-term resource grabs. Our national security depends on it.