There was a new National Security Strategy that released on Dec. 5th but I haven't seen anyone discuss it really. Thought it would be worth reading.
Highlights:
Our elites badly miscalculated America’s willingness to shoulder forever global burdens to which the American people saw no connection to the national interest. They overestimated America’s ability to fund, simultaneously, a massive welfare- regulatory-administrative state alongside a massive military, diplomatic, intelligence, and foreign aid complex. They placed hugely misguided and destructive bets on globalism and so-called “free trade” that hollowed out the very middle class and industrial base on which American economic and military preeminence depend. They allowed allies and partners to offload the cost of their defense onto the American people, and sometimes to suck us into conflicts and controversies central to their interests but peripheral or irrelevant to our own. And they lashed American policy to a network of international institutions, some of which are driven by outright anti-Americanism and many by a transnationalism that explicitly seeks to dissolve individual state sovereignty. In sum, not only did our elites pursue a fundamentally undesirable and impossible goal, in doing so they undermined the very means necessary to achieve that goal: the character of our nation upon which its power, wealth, and decency were built.
Full border/immigration control, resilient national infrastructure against natural disasters and foreign threats, more military funding, a robust modern nuclear deterrent
PLUS the Golden Dome, "world's most robust industrial base" for both peacetime and wartime production, continued soft power to exercise global influence and being "unapologetic about our countries past" (yes we had slaves and killed natives, fuck off about it), and a strong moral base of family and American patriotism to bring about a new golden age.
For actual (core and vital) focuses:
Western hemisphere stabilization to discourage mass-migration (sorry Venezuela) and the reinforcement of the Monroe Doctrine. Telling Europe to stop depending on the US and stand up for themselves. Cementing a Middle Eastern ally for secure oil and gas supplies (Saudi Arabria is considered a greater ally than Israel in this). AI focus to keep US tech and innovation ahead in the new field.
Multiple mentions of growing the middle class through energy sector and full-stack reindustrialization (raw materials -> final product within borders). Also explicitly "Returning economic freedom to our citizens via historic tax cuts and deregulatory efforts". Literally "America First" diplomacy.
Bad news for jeet haters:
We must continue to improve commercial (and other) relations with India to encourage New Delhi to contribute to Indo-Pacific security
Also we're having a slightly renewed focus on Africa. Goal is to stop trying to spread democracy and trade with existing US-friendly countries for goods. Moving from foreign aid to investment with the goal of getting natural resources + labor (latent economic potential).
TLDR: US-first diplomacy. Return to Western Hemisphere isolationism and independence. Strong emphasis on energy sectors when mentioning job creation and infrastructure hardening. Heavy focus on industrialization within US borders and a strong focus on Western Hemisphere trade. Leaving the EU behind to avoid American involvement in future wars (shoving them out of the nest), Africa is getting investments for resources and melanin-rich wagies.
