Foreign Policy

NATO

The United States maintains its current troop commitments to NATO. European member nations are pushed to fund their own defense at the levels they have long committed to, with American training support to help build that capacity. We do not abandon the alliance. We stop subsidizing allies who can afford to carry their own weight.

Russia and Ukraine

Direct US involvement is reduced and brought to an end. The case for open-ended American military support was never made to the American people in a meaningful way, and the off-ramp has only gotten harder to find the longer we avoid it. We push for a diplomatic resolution now — not as a retreat, but as a recognition that prolonged proxy conflict serves no one except those who profit from it.

China and Taiwan

Strategic ambiguity — the current US posture — is maintained. We do not announce an intention to defend Taiwan militarily, and we do not announce an intention not to. This posture has preserved stability across the strait for decades. We do not abandon it in either direction for the sake of political signaling.

Iran and Israel

All US military funding to Israel ends immediately. Any US-held assets belonging to Benjamin Netanyahu are frozen pending accountability for war crimes and genocide committed under his leadership. This is a deliberate, sharp break from the bipartisan consensus that has governed US-Israel policy for decades — and it is the right call.

This position is not anti-Jewish, and it is not antisemitic. It is anti-cruelty. The distinction the party draws is between a people and a religion on one hand, and a 20th-century political ideology and a government's specific policies on the other — Judaism is a faith practiced by millions of people who hold every range of view on Israeli state policy, including many who are themselves anti-Zionist or non-Zionist; Zionism is a political movement about the character and conduct of a specific state. Opposing what a government does is not the same as opposing the people whose religion it claims to represent, and treating those as identical erases the substantial number of Jewish people and organizations who draw the same distinction themselves. This platform is anti-Zionist and pro-Jewish, and does not consider those positions to be in tension.

Worth being direct about this rather than asserting it as settled: the claim that anti-Zionism and antisemitism are cleanly separable is itself genuinely contested. Serious people disagree on where legitimate criticism of a state's conduct ends and where it shades into something else, and this platform's position won't be read as uncontroversial by everyone engaging with it in good faith. The party's answer is to hold the distinction honestly and consistently — opposing specific, documented conduct, not a people or a faith — and to expect to be judged on whether it does that consistently, not just on the label it uses for itself.

The specific conduct driving this position is documented, not asserted. Al-Haq, a Palestinian human rights monitoring organization, reported that more than 81 water wells were destroyed in Area C of the West Bank since early 2024 for lacking Israeli-issued building permits, many of them sealed with concrete or dismantled. The United Nations independently documented more than 100 water-related facility demolitions in the West Bank since October 7, 2023. Israel's official position frames these actions as permit-law enforcement in Area C, the portion of the West Bank under Israeli administrative and security control since the Oslo Accords — this platform rejects that framing as a justification, but it exists and should be acknowledged rather than ignored. On land: the International Court of Justice's July 2024 advisory opinion found Israel's continued presence in the Palestinian territories unlawful, and settlement construction has long been considered a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention's prohibition on an occupying power transferring its own population into occupied territory. This is not a fringe legal reading — it reflects the position of the International Court of Justice and the overwhelming majority of the international community, even though Israel disputes it.

The focus shifts to rebuilding a working relationship with Iran following the ceasefire that ended the major combat phase of Operation Epic Fury (June 28, 2026). Diplomatic re-engagement — not military posturing — is the path forward in the region.

War Powers

Offensive military action requires Congressional authorization within a fixed 15-day window after action begins — not prior authorization. This preserves the executive's ability to respond to emergencies without waiting for legislative process, while forcing real Congressional accountability shortly afterward. The current system — in which presidents wage years-long military campaigns under emergency authorities that Congress never revisits — ends.

Trade as Protection and Progress

Free and open trade is the long-term goal. In the near term, tariff reduction is used strategically as an incentive — rewarding nations that respect American intellectual property, protect cybersecurity, and play fair. Trade policy should protect American interests, not enrich intermediaries.

Environmental Sanctions

Countries that egregiously pollute face crippling sanctions determined by the United States as a matter of foreign policy. The goal is not punishment — it is leverage. Sanctions bring parties to the table for coordinated global solutions to environmental destruction that no single country can solve alone.