REBECCA GRANT: Trump shifts foreign policy focus from globalism to economic priorities

Pull out your chair. Top off your coffee. Last week, the White House unveiled President Donald J. Trump’s new National Security Strategy, and it’s the chattiest foreign policy document you’ve ever seen.

Trump’s strategy is cleaning house. Mass immigration, Europe and globalization are over. Flexible realism, drug boat attacks, and Golden Dome-style missile defense.

Of course, the foreign policy establishment was immediately alarmed by these rumors about Europe. They should have seen it coming. “Europe is in serious trouble. It has been invaded by a force of illegal aliens that no one has ever seen before,” Trump said in his speech at the UN on September 23. he warned.

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This is a strategy driven by economic priorities. The strategy promises, “The days when the United States supported the entire world order like Atlas are over.” “We want the strongest, most dynamic, most innovative and most developed economy in the world,” he says.

For all its moments of indiscretion and gossip, this is an apt policy diagnosis that points the way to a bright future. America is not retreating. Far from it. This is a hopeful strategy for peace and prosperity, leading nations like Poland, Finland, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and others to step up. Read on and you’ll learn how America went astray on globalization and illegal immigration, and why artificial intelligence, the state of the dollar, and technology investments are driving American policy.

Here are four key moments and one serious omission.

1. The Consequence of Trump’s Monroe Doctrine

If you’ve been following the drug boat attacks, you know that Trump decided to “reassert and enforce the Monroe Doctrine to restore America’s preeminence in the Western Hemisphere.” This includes using lethal force to defeat cartels and adjusting global military presence to deploy more U.S. forces in the Western Hemisphere (such as the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier’s F/A-18s flying over the Gulf of Venezuela). The goal is for America to be the partner of choice.

It’s time. China is everywhere in Central and South America and its influence in the Western Hemisphere needs to be eliminated.

2. Watch Out, Europe

The White House says Europe is on the brink of “civilizational extinction.” What a wake-up call. According to the strategy, Europe’s share of world GDP fell from 25 percent to 14 percent. Moreover, the European Union has turned into a regulatory machine prone to spitting on US trade interests. It doesn’t make headlines, but it’s a major problem for Trump’s team. They believe that anti-American EU regulations on tech companies in key areas such as immigration, recession, free speech controls and, frankly, space policy will “render Europe unrecognizable within 20 years”.

Will we still be allies? The strategy states that “it is far from clear whether some European countries will have strong enough economies and militaries to remain reliable allies.”

So with that reassuring statement, the storm broke out. Exactly. Perhaps it is time to get new security leadership from states serious about containing Russia: more Warsaw and Helsinki, less Paris and Berlin. In NATO and military matters, Europe is still a family. Look at those F-35s chasing Russian drones.

3. It’s Not Everything Middle East

The strategy aims to prevent any hostile power, including China, from dominating the resources and gateways of the Middle East. However, the strategy states, “The days when the Middle East dominated American foreign policy in both long-term planning and day-to-day implementation are thankfully over.”

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I agree with this. The credit is due to American B-2 bombers hitting Iran’s nuclear facilities.

4. America Stays on Top

The good news is that “we need to grow from our current economy of $30 trillion in 2025 to $40 trillion by the 2030s,” the strategy says. That is, if we keep our AI technology accumulation and energy dominance ahead of China and “stop and reverse the ongoing damage that foreign actors are doing to the American economy.” So there’s a basis for Trump greenlighting the sale of third-rate NVIDIA AI chips to China. Global market share is important.

Space policy is the biggest shortcoming

I was disappointed. You would never know that China is racing to control the Moon, place satellites in low Earth orbit, and use in-orbit attack options.

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Trump’s team has yet to lay out a vision for space; This is surprising because Trump established the US Space Force in his first term.

Trump owes Americans a plan to protect space, which is vital to the U.S. economy and prosperity. National security depends on it.

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