The past two months have seen much of the world coping with surprise and confusion after a series of lightning moves by US President Donald Trump’s administration, from the rendition of Venezuela’s head of state Nicolas Maduro to the attempt to force Denmark into handing over Greenland and the seizure of a Russian oil tanker on the high seas.
Yet these actions, and others, adhere closely to the US National Security Strategy (NSS) released by the White House in November 2025. This blueprint represents the views not just of Mr Trump, but key administration figures like Stephen Miller and Michael Anton, who heavily influence both policy execution priorities and the geopolitical imagination of the Maga movement.
The NSS is something unprecedented in 75 years; it explicitly declared worldwide American hegemony a dangerous and unsustainable fantasy.
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