So basically, Trump wants America to be Russia

The White House released its national security policy last week, and it's a doozy.

For starters, it takes the 200-year-old Monroe Doctrine and supercharges it, seeing the Western Hemisphere as one big colony of the US of A. Canada, for instance, was called a "vassal" of the US (plus, somehow, a threat to the US).

The strategy also explicitly reverses 80 years of bipartisan approach, now seeing the EU as a direct threat (just like Putin does). A key priority is to undermine the EU as much as possible by supporting far-right groups across the subcontinent, ideally breaking up the union entirely.

Trump also intends to cede global influence on a huge scale, leaving room for countries like Putin's Russia to slither into the vacuum. He's not just disrupting the balance of power, he's shredding it completely.

This policy is shocking; America will be nobody's friend, and no one will be able to rely on America or its promises.

The real question is how closely this approach aligns to objective reality. Previous American leaders understood the need for diplomacy, consensus, negotiation, good relations. But the current crop of Fox News talking heads have embraced a low-IQ worldview that sees a hyperpower doing what it wants, whenever it wants, to whomever it wants. America versus the world, basically.

We'll see how well that goes.

What do you think? Will this lead to a new world order where most of the planet moves on without Uncle Sam and remains more or less stable, leaving the US to decline into impoverished fascism? Or will the withdrawal of the US result in global chaos, leaving the US to decline into impoverished fascism?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/07/kremlin-hails-trump-national-security-strategy-as-aligned-with-russia-vision