U.S. President Donald Trump laid out a radical realignment of U.S. foreign policy on Friday (December 5, 2025), shifting the longtime superpower's focus from global to regional, brutally criticising Europe as facing "civilizational erasure" and putting a top priority on eliminating mass migration.
The national security strategy, meant to flesh out Mr. Trump's norms-shattering worldview, elevates Latin America to the top of the US agenda in a sharp reorientation from longstanding US calls to focus on Asia to face a rising China.
"In everything we do, we are putting America First," Mr. Trump said in a preamble to the long-awaited paper.
Breaking with decades of attempts to be the sole superpower, the strategy said that the "United States rejects the ill-fated concept of global domination for itself."
It said that the United States would also prevent other powers, namely China, from dominating but added: "This does not mean wasting blood and treasure to curtail the influence of all the world's great and middle powers."
