Trump’s Monroe Doctrine Reboot ‘strategy’ is 19th-century cosplay with drones
The Orange Menace’s newly released “national security strategy” is a fever dream scribbled in Sharpie over a Risk board. In it, the convicted felon nee president’s team rewrites global alliances, threatens South America with murderous boat strikes, and warns Europe that its real problem isn’t war or inflation, it is their lack of manly vibes.
The document released Friday by the White House is sure to roil long-standing U.S. allies in Europe for its scathing critiques of their migration and free speech policies, suggesting they face the “prospect of civilizational erasure” and raising doubts about their long-term reliability as American partners.
At the same time the administration is sharply critical of its democratic allies in Europe and carrying out a pressure campaign of boat strikes in South America, it chides past U.S. efforts to shape or criticize Middle Eastern nations and seeks to discourage attempts for changes in those countries’ governments and policies.
The strategy reinforces, in sometimes chilly and bellicose terms, Trump’s “America First” philosophy, which favors nonintervention overseas, questions decades of strategic relationships and prioritizes U.S. interests.
The strategy document, a legally mandated plan that’s usually uncontroversial, targets longtime European allies for supposedly losing their identities to immigration and “wokeism,” praises the rise of far-right parties, and lays the groundwork for a fresh round of Whiskey Pete’s military adventurism in Latin America. Meanwhile, it suggests the U.S. should stop “hectoring” Middle Eastern monarchies about democracy, because apparently, we’re done caring about the will of the people. This is a strategy document crafted by a fan of fascist thugs worldwide.