Trump’s new security strategy shifts US focus to Latin America, vows ‘resistance’ in Europe, and calls for an end to mass migration.
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has unveiled a radical realignment of US foreign policy, shifting the nation’s focus from global to regional priorities.
The new national security strategy criticises Europe as facing “civilizational erasure” and prioritises eliminating mass migration.
“In everything we do, we are putting America First,” Trump said in a preamble to the long-awaited document.
It states the United States rejects the concept of global domination for itself and will prevent other powers, like China, from dominating.
“This does not mean wasting blood and treasure to curtail the influence of all the world’s great and middle powers,” the strategy adds.
It calls for a military “readjustment” to address urgent threats in the Western Hemisphere, starting with migration.
“The era of mass migration must end,” the strategy paper declares.
The document says the administration will be “cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations.”
Germany quickly responded that it does not need “outside advice.”
Democratic Congressman Gregory Meeks said the document “discards decades of values-based US leadership.”
The strategy warns Europe’s decline is “eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure.”
“Should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less,” it states.
It also accuses Europeans of weakness regarding NATO and the Ukraine war.
The strategy speaks boldly of pressing US dominance in Latin America, modernising the Monroe Doctrine.
It pays comparatively little attention to the Middle East, stating America’s historic reason for focusing there “will recede.”
On China, the strategy repeats calls for a “free and open” Asia-Pacific but focuses on economic competition.
It supports the status quo on Taiwan but calls on allies Japan and South Korea to contribute more to its defence.
The strategy puts little focus on Africa, advocating a shift from aid to securing critical minerals.
