{"id":332188,"date":"2025-12-05T14:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/332188\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T14:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:49:08","slug":"trump-national-security-strategy-calls-for-cultivating-resistance-in-europe-and-changing-us-role-in-western-hemisphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/332188\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump national security strategy calls for \u2018cultivating resistance\u2019 in Europe and changing US\u2019 role in Western hemisphere"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n The White House quietly released President Donald Trump\u2019s new national security strategy<\/a> late Thursday, a 33-page document that elevates his \u201cAmerica First\u201d doctrine and sets out the administration\u2019s realignment of US foreign policy, from shifting military resources in the Western Hemisphere to taking an unprecedentedly confrontational posture toward Europe.\n <\/p>\n

\n The strategy centers on Trump\u2019s call for a \u201creadjustment\u201d of the US military presence<\/a> in the Western Hemisphere to counter migration, drug trafficking and what it describes as the rise of adversarial powers in the region.\n <\/p>\n

\n It outlines plans for a larger Coast Guard and Navy presence in the region and deployments to \u201csecure the border and defeat cartels, including where necessary the use of lethal force.\u201d The document frames this as part of a \u201cTrump Corollary\u201d to the Monroe Doctrine<\/a>, an 1823 presidential call for European powers to respect the US\u2019 sphere of influence in the west.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe United States must be preeminent in the Western Hemisphere as a condition of our security and prosperity\u2014a condition that allows us to assert ourselves confidently where and when we need to in the region,\u201d the document says.\n <\/p>\n

\n It comes as the administration has pursued a deadly campaign against alleged drug boats<\/a> in international waters, so far, destroying at least 23 boats and killing 87 people. Outside legal experts and some members of Congress have questioned the legality of the effort.\n <\/p>\n

\n The strategy\u2019s section on Europe represents a more dramatic escalation, warning that European nations face \u201ceconomic decline\u201d that could be \u201ceclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The document goes on to argue that \u201cover the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades at the latest, certain NATO members will become majority non-European,\u201d raising what it calls \u201can open question\u201d about whether those countries would continue to view their alliance with the United States in the same way.\n <\/p>\n

\n The administration\u2019s strategy also asserts that the \u201cUkraine War has had the perverse effect of increasing Europe\u2019s, especially Germany\u2019s, external dependencies\u201d and claims \u201ca large European majority wants peace, yet that desire is not translated into policy, in large measure because of those governments\u2019 subversion of democratic processes.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The strategy blames European officials for blocking US-backed efforts to end the conflict and states that an end to \u201chostilities\u201d is needed to stabilize European economies, prevent war, and reestablish stability with Russia<\/a>: \u201cIt is a core interest of the United States to negotiate an expeditious cessation of hostilities in Ukraine, in order to stabilize European economies, prevent unintended escalation or expansion of the war, and reestablish strategic stability with Russia, as well as to enable the post-hostilities reconstruction of Ukraine to enable its survival as a viable state.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n A salient point in the Europe section of the strategy goes further, explicitly endorsing efforts to influence the domestic politics of US allies, saying the American broad policy toward Europe should prioritize \u201ccultivating resistance to Europe\u2019s current trajectory within European nations.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cShould present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less. \u2026 We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence, and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation,\u201d it says.\n <\/p>\n

\n The chief spokesperson for the European Commission, Paula Pinho, said at a press briefing Friday that European leaders had not yet had \u201cthe time to look into (the document)\u201d and were not in a \u201cposition to comment.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The document also reiterates the administration\u2019s push for \u201cending the perception, and preventing the reality, of NATO as a perpetually expanding alliance.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u200bThe document formalizes some of the administration\u2019s previous criticism of Europe. In a speech in Munich, Germany, in February<\/a>, Vice President JD Vance told European leaders that the biggest threat to their security was \u201cfrom within,\u201d rather than from China or Russia.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWhat I worry about is the threat from within, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values,\u201d Vance told a stone-faced audience at the Munich Security Conference.\n <\/p>\n

\n The Trump administration\u2019s strategy also outlines a dual-track approach to China, pushing to contain Beijing\u2019s global influence while preserving economic ties and maintaining the current conditions on Taiwan, saying that \u201cdeterring a conflict over Taiwan, ideally by preserving military overmatch, is a priority.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n It also calls for \u201cmaintaining a genuinely mutually advantageous economic relationship\u201d with China by prioritizing \u201creciprocity and fairness\u201d and reducing US dependence on the country. According to the document, such a reset is key to sustaining US growth from \u201ca $30 trillion economy in 2025 to $40 trillion in the 2030s.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The strategy describes alliances as instrumental rather than intrinsic, labeling them \u201ca broad network of alliances, with treaty allies and partners in the world\u2019s most strategically important regions,\u201d deployed as tools within a broader framework grounded in Trump\u2019s affinity to break with traditional norms.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cPresident Trump uses unconventional diplomacy, America\u2019s military might, and economic leverage to surgically extinguish embers of division between nuclear-capable nations and violent wars caused by centuries-long hatred,\u201d it says.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White House quietly released President Donald Trump\u2019s new national security strategy late Thursday, a 33-page document that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-332188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}