Isolde Van den Eynde: “Where countries usually use a World Cup as a charm offensive, the United States displays a hard power policy”

“The World Cup is usually used to seduce the world. As a charm offensive. In the United States we see something different,” writes political journalist Isolde Van den Eynde. “Billions of people watch and see hard power politics and isolationism off the field. That is Trump’s political guiding principle.”

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