Trump’s National Security Strategy declares ‘days of United States propping up entire world order like Atlas are over’ as administration shifts focus

Pull up your chair.  Top off your coffee.  Last week, the White House released President Donald J. Trump’s new National Security Strategy, and it is the chattiest foreign policy document you’ve ever seen.  Read here and below.

First and foremost, Trump’s strategy is driven by economic priorities.  “We want the world’s strongest, most dynamic, most innovative, and most advanced economy,” as the strategy says.

Trump’s strategy cleans house.  No dry and diplomatic language here.  Out with mass migration, Europe, and globalization.  In with flexible realism, drug boat strikes, and Golden Dome missile defense.  This document does Americans the honor of telling it like it is.

Of course, the foreign policy establishment freaked out over the venting about Europe.  They should have seen it coming.  “Europe is in serious trouble. They have been invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody has ever seen before,” Trump warned in his UN speech.

“The days of the United States propping up the entire world order like Atlas are over,” the strategy says.

Read it and you’ll learn how America went off track with globalism, and illegal immigration. And why AI, the status of the dollar, and tech investments are leading American policy.  For all its indiscreet and gossipy moments, it’s a spot-on policy diagnosis that points the way to a bright future.  America is not retreating.  Far from it.  This is a strategy full of hope for peace and prosperity – and it makes way for nations like Poland, Finland, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and others to step up.

Here are the four major moments, and one serious miss.

Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.  If you’ve been tracking the drug boat strikes, you know Trump decided to “reassert and enforce the Monroe Doctrine to restore American preeminence in the Western Hemisphere.”  That includes lethal force to defeat cartels and readjusting global military presence to put more military forces in the Western hemisphere – such as the F/A-18s from the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford flying over the Gulf of Venezuela.  The goal is for America to be the partner of choice.  High time.  China is all over Central and South America, and their influence in the Western hemisphere needs to be eradicated.

Watch Out Europe.  The White House says Europe is on the verge of “civilizational erasure.”  What a wake up call.  According to the strategy, Europe’s share of world GDP has declined from 25% to 14%.  Also, the European Union has grown into a regulatory machine prone to spitting on U.S. business interests.  It doesn’t make headlines, but it’s a major issue for Trump’s team.  They believe migration, stagnation, free speech controls and frankly anti-American EU regulations on tech companies in key areas like space policy will make Europe “unrecognizable in 20 years.”  Will we still be allies?  They say it is “far from obvious whether certain European countries will have economies and militaries strong enough to remain reliable allies.”  So with that cathartic statement, the thunderstorm broke.  Just as well.  Maybe it is time for new security leadership from states serious about containing Russia: more Warsaw and Helsinki, less Paris and Berlin.  On NATO and military matters, Europe is still family.  Just look at all those F-35s chasing Russian drones.

Not All About the Middle East.  The strategy wants to prevent any adversarial power – that’s you, China – from dominating the Middle East resources and chokepoints.  But, “the days in which the Middle East dominated American foreign policy in both long-term planning and day-to-day execution are thankfully over,” says the strategy.  Got to agree with that.  Credit is due to American B-2 bombers knocking back Iran’s nuclear sites.

America stays on top.  The good news is “we should be headed from our present $30 trillion economy in 2025 to $40 trillion in the 2030s,” says the strategy.  That is, if we keep our AI tech stack and energy dominance ahead of China.  And “halt and reverse the ongoing damage that foreign actors inflict on the American economy.”  So, there’s the basis for Trump’s greenlight of third-rate NVIDIA AI chip sales to China.  Global market share matters.

Space policy is the major miss.  I’m disappointed.  You’d never know that China is racing to control the Moon, hem in satellites in Low Earth Orbit, and wield on-orbit attack options.  Trump’s team has yet to lay out a vision for space – surprising, since he created the United States Space Force in his first term.  Trump owes Americans a plan for protecting space which is vital to the U.S. economy and prosperity.  National security depends on it.

This article was originally published on the Lexington Institute: Trump Doctrine Slams Globalism and Charts a Tougher, Tech-driven US Future (From FOX News) | Lexington Institute

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