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Trump’s National Security Strategy: Dominate the Americas, Split Europe with Russia and Asia with China, Monetize the Middle East, Quarantine Africa

Monday, December 15, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Trump’s newly published National Security Strategy reads less like a plan for global stability than a roadmap for willful disorder. Rather than strengthening alliances, the strategy reduces global security to transactional leverage, abandons Europe to Russian pressure, and forces the EU to reckon with defending itself without Washington.

iPINIONS explains why Europe is now being forced to rearm and defend itself.

Trump's National Security Strategy and its pro-Putin slant

Read my full take on Substack:
https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/trumps-national-security-strategy

Anthony L. Hall

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Filed Under: International Affairs Tagged With: Africa US foreign policy, National Security Strategy, Putin, Russia, Trump, Ukraine

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