Unpacking a Trump Twist of the National Security Strategy

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1. From [Unpacking a Trump Twist of the National Security Strategy,](https://www.cfr.org/expert-brief/unpacking-trump-twist-national-security-strategy) published by The Council on Foreign Relations: 

   On December 4, the Donald Trump administration released a new National Security Strategy (NSS) that criticized U.S. allies in Europe and pledged to assert U.S. influence in the Western Hemisphere. The document’s principles—which emphasized non-interventionism and putting “America First”—signal a sharp change from the previous 2022 NSS that outlined the United States’ role in strengthening democracy and preserving peace under the current world order.

   The strategy says resolution of the Russia-Ukraine war is a central interest of the United States but directs stronger language at longtime U.S. allies in Europe than Russia, which had been called out in the first Trump administration as a chief geopolitical rival. Among other priorities, the White House called for a readjustment of U.S. military presence, moving troops away from the Middle East to focus on security and combating drug trafficking from in the Western Hemisphere. The strategy also calls on allies in the Indo-Pacific to increase its burden-sharing in deterring conflict with China in the Taiwan strait.

   To break down the strategy and its pivot from past norms, seven of the Council on Foreign Relations’ regional and conflict experts discussed the global implications of Trump’s new security doctrine.

2. Fair summary of the position on Europe in this NSS document. Unfortunately the reality is insane. Europe take more of a kicking than anyone else. And criticised for suppressing opposition and attacks on free-speech? From this bunch of bullies? Amazing. New position was at least clearly sign posted by Vance in Munich. Now it is the mainstream.

3. Some of the long dashes in the pdf makes it look like the strategy was created by GPT.

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