US National Security Strategy lays it all bare

[EricDMMiller]

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf

If nothing else, this is the least euphemistic version of US policy we've ever had.

US diplomacy is now an explicit protection racket. Pay up, in investment in US business and military hardware, or the US walks.

Expanding the Monroe Doctrine with the "Trump Corrolory". We will do what we want in the Americas and fuck you if you try and stop us:

We want to ensure that the Western Hemisphere remains reasonably stable and well-governed enough to prevent and discourage mass migration to the United States; we want a Hemisphere whose governments cooperate with us against narco-terrorists, cartels, and other transnational criminal organizations; we want a Hemisphere that remains free of hostile foreign incursion or ownership of key assets, and that supports critical supply chains; and we want to ensure our continued access to key strategic locations. In other words, we will assert and enforce a “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine;
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Our goals for the Western Hemisphere can be summarized as “Enlist and Expand.” We will enlist established friends in the Hemisphere to control migration, stop drug flows, and strengthen stability and security on land and sea. We will expand by cultivating and strengthening new partners while bolstering our own nation’s appeal as the Hemisphere’s economic and security partner of choice.
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The United States must reconsider our military presence in the Western Hemisphere. This means four obvious things:
A readjustment of our global military presence to address urgent threats in our Hemisphere, especially the missions identified in this strategy, and away from theaters whose relative import to American national security has declined in recent decades or years;

A more suitable Coast Guard and Navy presence to control sea lanes, to thwart illegal and other unwanted migration, to reduce human and drug trafficking, and to control key transit routes in a crisis;

Targeted deployments to secure the border and defeat cartels, including where necessary the use of lethal force to replace the failed law enforcement-only strategy of the last several decades; and

Establishing or expanding access in strategically important locations

Foreign companies will be "pushed out." Contracts go to American firms, sole-source. Governments that accept Chinese or other outside investment will face consequences. Lethal military force will become the norm. Countries that depend on the US will be leveraged maximally.

There are about to be a lot more imperial vassal states in the world.

The comments about Europe are interesting too. The US will destabilize european nations that don't display sufficient levels of ethno-nationalism. The stated concern is that countries are becoming "majority non-European" and might become "unrecognizable" as "civilizational erasure" marches across the continent.

The goal is to "cultivate resistance" to demographic change in allied nations. The concern is explicitly about blood and soil - Blut und Boden, if you will.

The comments about Africa relate solely to imperial resource extraction. They will work with anyone and do anything to get what they want. Good luck, Africa.

On the Middle East, now that the fracking revolution has borne fruit, fuck off Middle East - the only thing that matters there now is Israel.

On Asia and China, contain, compete, decouple. Prevent any peer. Taiwan matters for semiconductors and geography, not principle. Allies spend more, host more bases, buy American weapons. This is how the US identifies its allies now. Not on the basis of what they stand for, but on the basis of how much US industrial and military spending outlay can be mustered.

It's a concrete and explicit end to the plausible deniability about post-war US foreign policy. They built up that big military and now they intend to use it to extract resources and fealty from the nations that can't compete with them.

 

[EricDMMiller]

Kremlin hails Trump’s national security strategy as aligned with Russia’s vision

Moscow welcomes White House document critical of the EU as talks to end the Ukraine war enter a key phase

www.theguardian.com

The Kremlin has heaped praise on Donald Trump’s latest national security strategy, calling it an encouraging change of policy that largely aligns with Russian thinking.

The remarks follow the publication of a White House document on Friday that criticises the EU and says Europe is at risk of “civilisational erasure”, while making clear the US is keen to establish better relations with Russia.

“The adjustments that we see correspond in many ways to our vision,” the Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said on Sunday. He welcomed signals that the Trump administration was “in favour of dialogue and building good relations”. He warned, however, that the supposed US “deep state” could try to sabotage Trump’s vision.

It is interesting to me that, if it is implemented, the new National Security Strategy ("NSS") would greatly assist in the goals set out in Foundations of Geopolitics.

It represents a huge step to completing the "Atlanticist" divorce by severing the US from Europe, leaving the space to be filled with Russian influence. Although the NSS uses language that sounds like a reassertion of unipolarity, its functional policies lean heavily toward a "spheres of influence" model that Dugin would likely recognize as a transitional step toward his preferred multipolar world order.

Although only explicitly listed in the preamble, the NSS is heavily focused on domestic culture wars, explicitly targeting "radical gender ideology," "woke lunacy," and "DEI" within American institutions. It frames a large portion of the previous administration's policies as "hostile foreign influence" and "cultural subversion". Although the document tries to suggest that the US is winning that culture war, having the US engage in it at all is Dugin's objective.

The focus on "civilizational" identity of Europe rather than shared liberal or democratic values aligns almost perfectly with Dugin's rejection of liberalism. Here, the US is both walking the walk and talking the talk of Dugin. The explicit willingness to ensure good relations with nations that don't share US values is another element of the same thing.

By prioritizing "stability" with Russia over the territorial integrity of Ukraine, this makes it more likely that any eventiual settlement will cede territory or political control to Moscow, advancing Dugin's requirement for control over the "Russian South." We've seen the "US" settlement proposal. We already know that this is what the US explicitly wants.

Hell, the expansionist NATO rhetoric is straight from Dugin and Putin, and the NSS explicitly states that ending this is an immediate priority of the US:

Ending the perception, and preventing the reality, of NATO as a perpetually
expanding alliance;

The NSS follows Dugin's preference for China by locking the US and China into a high-tension standoff in the Pacific. This will draw American resources away from Europe, leaving the Eurasian landmass open to Russian influence.

With respect to the Middle East, Dugin wants a "Moscow-Tehran axis". Although the NSS brags about US attacks against Iran, US antagonism likely only strengthens the Iran-Russia relationship. The Middle East section of the NSS is essentially a story of withdrawal and a move towards isolationism. This aligns with a "Retrenchment" strategy: smashing the immediate threat (Iran) so the U.S. can safely withdraw and let the "United Arab World" handle the rest. While this leaves a pro-American structure in place, the act of withdrawal itself fulfills Dugin's prophecy that the U.S. will eventually retreat to its own hemisphere.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Expanding the Monroe Doctrine with the "Trump Corrolory". We will do what we want in the Americas and fuck you if you try and stop us:

Obviously countries are competitive, that is not a bad thing, but the toxic, obnoxious and bad faith way the Monroe Doctrine communicates that is sickening to me.

 

[EricDMMiller]

It's all Russia all the time at the White House now.

Trump plans envision major U.S. investment in Russia, restoring oil flows to Europe, WSJ says

U.S. President Donald Trump's plan for peace in Ukraine includes proposals to restore Russian energy flows to Europe, major U.S. investment in Russian rare earths and energy, and tapping frozen Russian sovereign assets, the Wall Street Journal said.

www.reuters.com

‘Make Europe Great Again’ and more from a longer version of the National Security Strategy

A fuller version reviewed by Defense One outlines the Trump administration’s plans for shedding old relationships and creating new ones.

www.defenseone.com

Trump team weighs forming 5-nation group with Russia to replace G7 — Politico

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newsukraine.rbc.ua

Trump lies about election results and the Capitol is stormed. Trump allies the US with its greatest geopolitical enemy, betrays its allies, and threatens its friends and there is silence.

 

[EricDMMiller]

https://kyivindependent.com/us-sides-with-russia-in-un-resolution-on-chornobyl-disaster/

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