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For Donald Trump, as the recent imbroglio over Ukraine indicates, foreign policy and national security concerns are of secondary importance to his reelection prospects.

Cutting a de facto deal on U.S. troop deployments with an unsavory dictator like Turkey’s Erdogan in northern Syria demonstrated a flippant attitude toward such a stalwart U.S. ally as the Kurds. If the Kurds could be reduced to a bargaining chip by the world’s self-proclaimed best dealmaker, then why not the even older “blood ally” South Korea?