Trump Administration has released its National Security policy. It is a startling document, both in its language and in its assertion of an entirely self-absorbed (countries don’t have friends…just interests) approach to international relations.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration has set forth a new national security strategy that paints European allies as weak and aims to reassert America’s dominance in the Western Hemisphere.
The document released Friday by the White House is sure to roil long-standing U.S. allies in Europe for its scathing critiques of their migration and free speech policies, suggesting they face the “prospect of civilizational erasure” and raising doubts about their long-term reliability as American partners.
At the same time the administration is sharply critical of its democratic allies in Europe and carrying out a pressure campaign of boat strikes in South America, it chides past U.S. efforts to shape or criticize Middle Eastern nations and seeks to discourage attempts for changes in those countries’ governments and policies.
The strategy reinforces, in sometimes chilly and bellicose terms, Trump’s “America First” philosophy, which favors nonintervention overseas, questions decades of strategic relationships and prioritizes U.S. interests.
The U.S. strategy “is motivated above all by what works for America — or, in two words, ‘America First,’” the document said.
Source: AP December 5, 2025 MICHELLE L. PRICE
Called “bleak and incoherent” by The Economist, aiming to create a “Fortress America” by Newsweek, envisaging Canada as a “vassal state” in the Toronto Star, and forecasting potential “civilization erasure” in Europe it is sure to keep the midnight oil burning in foreign capitals and provide much food for thought and reaction.
Read the full story here…with links to the US policy document.
See also early reaction… Experts react: What Trump’s National Security Strategy means for US foreign policy – Atlantic Council
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