National Security Strategy 2025 Quietly Published On December 5

 The National Security Strategy published by the Trump administration (link below), heaps a pile of praise on President Trump, but also outlines top priorities for the administration going forward.

The document purports to want a restoration and reinvigoration of, "American spiritual and cultural health...We want an America that cherishes its past glories and its heroes, and that looks forward to a new golden age." We cannot do it, the document says, "without growing numbers of strong, traditional families that raise healthy children." Lots of subtext in these sentences. A ton of subtext.

In several places, the document discusses the re-establishment of the Monroe Doctrine, an 1823 idea under President Monroe which, in short, made the U.S. territory off limits to colonization, and in return, the United States would not meddle in international affairs. The document expands the Monroe Doctrine to all kinds of foreign influence: cultural, etc...The between-the-lines reading is the doctrine Trump has been using to target the immigrants of non-white nations, their children and their grandchildren, etc...who have retained vestiges of the cultures of their homelands.

It's hard for me to like the document, because any point that starts well, ends terribly. For example, we want to support the democracies of Europe...Great!...by making sure they remain white...Yikes!... And the document goes on and on like that. We want to form partnerships in the Middle East that aren't dependent on oil, but on the trade of other products and services...Excellent!...And we will look the other way and ignore human rights abuses...What?...

Among the list of strategies will be non-interventionalism (as Trump prepares to bomb, of all places, Venezuela, to force regime change). There's a lot about economic independence and making sure our trade relationships with other nations are fair and reciprocal (we have heard these talking points ad nauseum and I won't repeat them again here). There's a part about keeping our supply chains and the water ways, open and free-flowing.

We do this, the document explains, by weilding the power of our economy and our currency; through our alliances; and through the patriotism of the American people (they expect us to support Trump's tariffs, war campaigns, etc...).

Do do this, the document goes on, we have to focus on defining what is actually in our national interest, and narrowing the scope of that. We'll practice the Trump doctrine of peace through strength, and predispose ourselves to non-interventionalistm. We'll form economic ties regardless of the human rights abuses of the nation, as long as they promise fair and reciprocal practices. 

There is a list of "Priorities" that will be strategized above all: ending mass migration; protection of liberties; shifting the burden of allies back to their own defense instead of dependence on us; making more peace deals (led by Trump himself, of course); balancing trade; securing supply chains to critical materials; "reviving our Defense Industrial Base" (paying more to private defense contractors); Energy dominance; and financial sector dominance.

The document states that we will ensure our worldwide energy dominance by giving tax dollars to American energy companies.

I found some rather funny little nuggets. For example, we plan to turn small nations against our "adversaries" by telling them that after our adversaries make deals with them, they spy on them. But later in the document, it states we will make deals with these smaller nations and then spy on them.

You can read the full document at the link below.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf

For comparing and contrasting, here's a link to a Biden National Security Strategy published in 2022

https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Biden-Harris-Administrations-National-Security-Strategy-10.2022.pdf