President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025, in Washington, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, seated left and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, seated left. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)2025-12-05T13:59:12Z WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trumps administration set forth a new national security strategy that paints European allies as weak and aims to reassert Americas dominance in the Western Hemisphere. 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.It reinforces, in sometimes chilly and bellicose terms, Trumps America First philosophy, which favors nonintervention overseas, questions decades of strategic relationships and prioritizes U.S. interests above all. The U.S. strategy is motivated above all by what works for America or, in two words, America First, the document said. This is the first national security strategy, a document the administration is required by law to release, since the Republican presidents return to office in January. It is a stark break from the course set by Democratic President Joe Bidens administration, which sought to reinvigorate alliances after many were rattled in Trumps first term and to check a more assertive Russia. The United States is seeking to broker an end Russias nearly 4-year war in Ukraine, a goal that the national security strategy says is in Americas vital interests. But the document makes clear the U.S. wants to improve its relationship with Russia after years of Moscow being treated as a global pariah and that ending that war is a core U.S. interest in order to reestablish strategic stability with Russia. The document also is critical of Americas European allies. They have found themselves sometimes at odds this year with Trumps shifting approaches to the Russia-Ukraine war, and are facing domestic economic challenges as well an existential crisis, according to the U.S. Economic stagnation in Europe is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure, the strategy document said. https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/monroe-doctrineThe U.S. suggests that Europe is being enfeebled by its immigration policies, declining birthrates, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition and a loss of national identities and self-confidence. Should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less. As such, it is far from obvious whether certain European countries will have economies and militaries strong enough to remain reliable allies, the document said. Many of these nations are currently doubling down on their present path. We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence.Despite Trumps America First maxim, his administration has carried out a series of military strikes on alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean while weighing possible military action in Venezuela to pressure President Nicols Maduro. The moves are part of what the national security strategy lays out as a Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. The 1823 Monroe Doctrine, formulated by President James Monroe, was originally aimed at opposing any European meddling in the Western Hemisphere and was used to justify U.S. military interventions in Latin America.Trumps strategy document says the U.S. is reimagining its military footprint in the region even after building up the largest military presence there in generations.That means, for instance, targeted deployments to secure the border and defeat cartels, including where necessary the use of lethal force to replace the failed law enforcement-only strategy of the last several decades, it says. MICHELLE L. PRICE Price covers the White House. She previously covered the 2024 presidential campaign and politics, government and other news in New York, Nevada, Utah and Arizona. She is based in Washington. twitter mailto