"President Donald Trump's National Security Strategy (NSS) is the crudest articulation yet of his authoritarian nationalist project. It promises to smash the so-called rules-based international order Washington has superintended since the end of the Cold War. The U.S., of course, repeatedly violated that order's stated principles, like sovereignty and self-determination, most recently with the Biden administration's support for Israel's genocidal war in Gaza."
"Instead of global hegemony, it aims to carve out an exclusive U.S. sphere of influence in the Western Hemisphere, install pliant regimes, plunder their resources, and wield state power against migrants. The strategy as a whole has already born bitter fruit; Trump's ICE agents killed immigrant solidarity activist Renee Good, his special forces carried out a coup in Venezuela, and his administration threatens to annex Greenland."
Donald Trump's National Security Strategy pledges to dismantle the postwar rules-based international order and replace it with an authoritarian nationalist project focused on restoring U.S. power. The NSS blames liberal internationalism and free-trade globalization for U.S. decline and the rise of competitors, especially China. It announces a new 'Donroe Doctrine' to establish an exclusive Western Hemisphere sphere of influence, install compliant regimes, exploit resources, and wield state power against migrants. The strategy escalates imperial rivalry, intensifies class conflict and scapegoating, and has produced deadly enforcement actions, covert interventions, and territorial threats.
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