Overview
- The White House released a 33-page National Security Strategy that rejects a global policing role and elevates U.S. preeminence in the Western Hemisphere under a “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine.
- The strategy orders a readjusted regional force posture, including a larger Coast Guard and Navy presence and targeted deployments that could use lethal force against cartels and trafficking vessels.
- On Europe, it warns of “civilisational erasure,” faults EU migration and speech policies, calls for “cultivating resistance” within allied nations, and seeks to end the perception of NATO as perpetually expanding.
- It declares a core U.S. interest in negotiating an expeditious cessation of hostilities in Ukraine to stabilize European economies and restore strategic stability with Russia.
- China is framed primarily as an economic competitor with deterrence to avoid war over Taiwan, while European officials and former leaders voiced immediate outrage and a forthcoming National Defense Strategy is expected to drive implementation.