Donald Trump and J.D. Vance, New York City, September 11, 2024 (Yuki Iwamura/AP)
On Friday the White House unveiled a National Security Strategy which, promoting racist conspiracy theories and far-right political parties, effectively abandoned long-time US allies.
Rather than setting out a strategy, as US Administrations have since the early Cold War, the Trump camp rails against democratic systems, particularly in Europe, as well as against immigrants and refugees. It pushes a foreign policy based on “business opportunities” for its true allies — cronies and sycophants of Donald Trump rather than NATO, the European Union, and other regional and international organizations — and declares American domination of the Western Hemisphere under a “Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctine”.
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EA’s David Dunn and other experts speak about the unprecedented White House embrace of the far right and authoritarians.
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