{"id":319562,"date":"2025-12-07T08:33:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=319562"},"modified":"2025-12-08T08:30:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T08:30:48","slug":"the-trump-administrations-new-us-national-security-strategy-signals-a-divorce-from-nato-over-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=319562","title":{"rendered":"The Trump Administrations New US National Security Strategy Signals a Divorce from NATO Over Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Larry C. Johnson \u2013 SONAR21.com Dec 5, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

It is one thing to produce a written national security strategy, but the real test is whether or not Donald Trump is serious about implementing it. The key takeaways are the rhetorical deescalation with China and putting the onus on Europe to keep Ukraine alive.<\/p>\n

The 2025 National Security Strategy<\/em> (NSS<\/em>) of the United States, released by the White House on December 4, 2025, marks a potentially profound shift in US foreign policy under President Donald Trump\u2019s second administration as compared to his first term as president. This 33-page document explicitly embraces an \u201cAmerica First\u201d doctrine, rejecting global hegemony and ideological crusades in favor of pragmatic, transactional realism focused on protecting core national interests: homeland security, economic prosperity, and regional dominance in the Western Hemisphere.<\/p>\n

It critiques past US overreach as a failure that weakened America, positioning Trump\u2019s approach as a \u201cnecessary correction\u201d to usher in a \u201cnew golden age.\u201d The strategy prioritizes reindustrialization (aiming to grow the US economy from $30 trillion to $40 trillion by the 2030s), border security, and dealmaking over multilateralism or democracy promotion. It accepts a multipolar world, downgrading China from a \u201cpacing threat\u201d to an \u201ceconomic competitor\u201d and calling for selective engagement with adversaries. Yet, Donald Trump\u2019s actions during the first 11 months of his Presidency, have been inconsistent, even contradictory, of the written strategy.<\/p>\n

The is unapologetically partisan, crediting Trump personally for brokering peace in eight conflicts (e.g., India-Pakistan ceasefire, Gaza hostage return, Rwanda-DRC agreement) and securing a verbal commitment at the 2025 Hague Summit for NATO members to boost their defense spending to 5% of GDP. It elevates immigration as a top security threat, advocating lethal force against cartels if needed, and dismisses climate change and \u201cNet Zero\u201d policies as harmful to US interests.<\/p>\n

The document organizes US strategy around three pillars: homeland defense, the Western Hemisphere, and economic renewal. Secondary focuses include selective partnerships in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.<\/p>\n

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Here are the major rhetorical shifts in strategy compared to the previous strategies released during the respective presidencies of Trump (2017) and Biden (2022):<\/p>\n