Venezuela, Cuba, Greenland, Iran, Mexico, Brazil, Nigeria… the list of countries that have recently found themselves on Donald Trump's radar is long and eclectic, yet not all too striking considering the US-American ambitions laid out in the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) presented in December.
The core focus of the latest US National Security Strategy is quite straightforward: "Western Hemisphere" (which, to Trump's understanding, does not seem to include Europe or Africa) first. It elevates the Americas as the primary problem to US security concern, and in that, it revives the Monroe Doctrine – upgraded to the "Trump Corollary" a.k.a. the "Donroe Doctrine" –, a 1823 policy asserting that the Americas should be a US sphere of influence, so that Europe's then-colonial powers would stay out of the Americas. Trump's strategy revives and appropriates this old policy, framing in particular China and Russia as non-hemispheric competitors whose military and economic influence should be limited.
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