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The Hemispheric Turn in New US National Security Strategy
By Misión Verdad – Dec 9, 2025 The United Stats’ 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS),
2025-12-09T19:20:41.000Z
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December 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
pqpolitics.bsky.social
Canada & C. & S. A as US Vassal States. No.

"We will deny non-Hemispheric competitors ability to position forces or other threatening capabilities or to own or control strategically vital assets in our Hemisphere

“Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine"
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National Security Strategy of the United States of America November 2025
December 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
ajsdecepida.bsky.social
The NSS frames Europe and ❝elite-driven❞ liberal democracies as civilisationally adrift and explicitly vows to ❝oppose❞ what it casts as anti-democratic restrictions on ❝core liberties❞ in Europe and the Anglosphere.2,4,5 The Trump Corollary asserts US leadership and veto power over strategic assets in the hemisphere, with no room for dissent from regional partners.2,6 From there he infers that Canada is headed for direct political interference and structural downgrading from ally to object. That scenario is not far-fetched —Trump has already publicly backed the Freedom Convoy and attacked Canadian leaders— and it is consistent with European fears that the same doctrine will bankroll far-right movements across the EU.1,4,5 But Nagy’s and some other Canadian analyses cut a different way: they see the NSS as a coercive conditionality framework, not a clean break.6,7 In this view, the message to Ottawa is: Raise defence spending and take continental security seriously. Harden your stance on Chinese investment and influence. Align more closely with US positions on supply-chain security and Arctic access. If Canada does those things, the argument goes, it can remain an ❝indispensable❞ partner within a harsher, more hierarchical alliance structure.6,7 That reading doesn’t make the doctrine benign; it just assumes the relationship is still salvageable through painful adaptation rather than doomed to outright hostility. 6. Provisional Conclusion On the core descriptive claims, Wark is right: The 2025 NSS is a real, formal doctrine that sharply demotes values-based leadership in favour of civilisational and transactional ❝America First❞ interests.2,3,5 It is unusually hostile in tone toward Europe and explicitly promises to ❝cultivate resistance❞ within allied democracies.2,4,5 It revives a Monroe Doctrine logic in the Western Hemisphere through the Trump Corollary, which inevitably implicates Canada’s sovereignty over strategic geography and assets.2,6,7 Where his piece edges into alarmism is in treating these moves as already terminating the Canada-US alliance and making Canada simply ❝expendable❞. The text and the wider analytic field support a more conditional, ugly reality: Canada’s margin for divergence is much smaller; Washington is signalling it will lean much harder on Ottawa over China, defence, critical infrastructure, and Arctic posture. The risk of political interference and support for Canadian populist movements that align with Trumpist goals is higher than in the past, though not yet an established fact. The alliance is not dead on paper; it is being re-written on terms that make Canada’s security more dependent on demonstrating usefulness to US hemispheric strategy than on shared values. So Wark’s warning —that this is ❝not the doctrine of an ally❞ in the traditional sense— is directionally justified. But if you take his framing as the last word, you skip the hard policy question his article only gestures at: what should Canada actually do, concretely, to protect its interests and room for manoeuvre in a hemisphere where the US has just declared itself openly transactionalist and unapologetically hegemonic? The NSS doesn’t answer that; it only tells you that coasting on old assumptions is no longer an option. Citations: 1 Wesley Wark, ❝Trump’s Terrifying New Security Doctrine Turns Canada into a Target,❞ The Walrus, 08-Dec-2025. — https://thewalrus.ca/trumps-terrifying-new-security-doctrine-turns-allies-into-targets/ 2 2025 National Security Strategy of the United States of America, The White House, released 04-Dec-2025 (official 29-page NSS document setting out the Trump administration’s doctrine, including the Atlas line, civilisational rhetoric on Europe, and the ❝Trump Corollary❞ to the Monroe Doctrine). — https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf 3 Thomas Wright et al., ❝Breaking down Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy,❞ Brookings, 08-Dec-2025, multi-author analysis highlighting the civilisational framing of Europe, the Western Hemisphere priority, and continuities and breaks with previous strategies. — https://www.brookings.edu/articles/breaking-down-trumps-2025-national-security-strategy/ 4 Heather A. Conley, ❝The NSS That Could Destroy the NATO Alliance,❞ Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Dec-2025, arguing that the NSS’s portrayal of Europe as facing ❝civilizational erasure❞ and its pledge to ❝cultivate resistance❞ threaten alliance cohesion. — https://www.csis.org/analysis/nss-could-destroy-nato-alliance 5 Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, ❝What Trump’s New National Security Strategy Means for Canada,❞ Dec-2025, focusing on the reasserted Monroe Doctrine, the ❝Trump Corollary,❞ and implications for foreign ownership of strategically vital assets in the Western Hemisphere. — https://www.asiapacific.ca/publication/what-trumps-new-national-security-strategy-means-for-canada 6 Stimson Center, ❝Experts React: Trump Administration’s National Security Strategy,❞ Dec-2025, expert forum emphasising the shift from liberal primacy to ❝civilizational primacy❞ and the signal to support political movements reshaping European allies. — https://www.stimson.org/2025/experts-react-trump-administrations-national-security-strategy/ 7 Stephen Nagy, ❝Trump’s National Security Strategy Ends Canada’s Security Discount: Stephen Nagy for National Security Journal,❞ Macdonald-Laurier Institute, 09-Dec-2025, arguing that the NSS should push Canada toward greater strategic seriousness and tighter alignment with US hemispheric priorities. — https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/trumps-national-security-strategy-ends-canadas-security-discount-stephen-nagy-for-national-security-journal/
December 10, 2025 at 4:27 AM
ajsdecepida.bsky.social
🔃 {𝗮𝙅𝙎𝘿} My notes about the article… ⤵
{𝗮𝙅𝙎𝘿} My notes about the article… 1. What Wark Says the New NSS Does Wesley Wark’s Walrus piece treats the 29-page 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) as a serious ideological reset, not disposable Trump noise.1 He argues that the document: Explicitly rejects the post-1945 idea of the US as ❝Atlas❞ supporting a rules-based order, declaring those days ❝over❞. Reframes US foreign policy around a harshly transactional ❝America First❞ doctrine that is indifferent to democracy and human rights abroad. Castigates Europe as weak, overregulated, pro-migrant, and facing ❝civilizational erasure❞, while downplaying threats from Russia and other autocracies. Revives a Monroe Doctrine logic for the ❝western hemisphere❞ via a ❝Trump Corollary❞ that asserts US primacy over regional security, supply chains, and ❝strategically important locations❞.1,2 Because Canada looks, in Mark Carney’s own framing, like ❝the most European of non-European countries❞, Wark concludes that Ottawa is implicitly in the firing line: a European-style, elite-governed, pro-NATO, pro-Ukraine state sitting inside a hemisphere Washington now describes as its strategic preserve.1 2. What is Actually in the 2025 NSS The NSS is a formal White House document, issued under the statutory framework that has governed US strategies since the 1980s.2,3 It is not a tweet; it is the administration’s declared view of the world and of US interests. The 2025 text does indeed: Use the Atlas line almost verbatim and insist the US will ❝ruthlessly prioritise❞ interests instead of propping up a global order.2,3 State that the US will ❝reassert and enforce the Monroe Doctrine❞ through a ❝Trump Corollary❞, pledging to deny non-hemispheric powers control over ❝strategically vital assets❞ and to secure US access to ❝key strategic locations❞ in the Western Hemisphere.2,6 Warn that Europe faces a ❝stark prospect of civilizational erasure❞ driven by migration and low birth rates, blame the EU and transnational regulations for eroding sovereignty, and promise to ❝cultivate resistance❞ to Europe’s current trajectory.2,4,5 Those points are not Wark’s embellishments; they are highlighted across mainstream and specialist commentary. CSIS, for example, notes the ❝civilizational erasure❞ language and argues that this NSS ❝could destroy the NATO alliance❞ if taken at face value, because it rhetorically treats Europe more as a problem than as a partner.4 Stimson’s expert forum likewise stresses that the call to ❝cultivate resistance to Europe’s current trajectory❞ amounts to an endorsement of political movements aimed at reshaping allied democracies from within.5 3. How Other Analysts Read the Strategy Where Wark pushes hardest is in his conclusion that the NSS effectively ends any meaningful allied relationship with Canada. The broader analytic field is more varied. Brookings characterises the strategy as a sharp break with both Biden’s 2022 NSS and Trump’s own 2017 version, highlighting three big shifts: civilisational rhetoric about Europe, a strong Western Hemisphere focus (including the Trump Corollary), and a move away from promoting democracy as a US goal.3 But their authors also note elements of continuity —balancing China, avoiding great-power war, and working with allies ❝where interests align❞— and emphasise that the document still assumes NATO will exist, even if in a more self-reliant form.3 CSIS is more alarmed on the alliance front, warning that by framing the EU as an ideological adversary and courting far-right forces, the NSS risks hollowing out NATO from within.4 By contrast, RealClearDefense, a more hawkish outlet, praises aspects of the document’s strategic clarity —its focus on geography, spheres of influence, and preventing any single power from dominating key regions— while acknowledging that the rhetoric toward Europe will be ❝hard to swallow❞ for allies.4,7 So the field agrees that the NSS is a serious, coherent articulation of Trumpist foreign policy — civilisational in tone, sceptical of liberal internationalism, and hemisphere-centric. The disagreement is over whether it represents an unworkable break with allies or a brutally transactional framework that could still be managed (badly, but short of rupture) by bureaucracies and Congress. 4. The Trump Corollary and Canada's Position For Canada, the crucial section is the Western Hemisphere chapter. The NSS explicitly commits to ❝reassert and enforce the Monroe Doctrine❞, deny non-hemispheric powers control of strategically vital assets, and ensure US access to key strategic locations across the region.2,6 Canadian and Asia-Pacific analysts note that this clearly covers: Latin American ports, canals, energy infrastructure and telecoms networks at risk of Chinese or other foreign control. The Arctic and North American critical-minerals and energy infrastructure, where Canadian territory and jurisdiction are unavoidable. Continental security, especially migration, drug flows, and transnational crime. An Asia Pacific Foundation brief on the NSS points out that the Corollary is framed primarily around China’s growing role in the Americas but warns that Canada’s own openness to foreign investment in critical sectors and its relatively cautious China policy make it an implicit focus of US concern.6 Stephen Nagy, writing for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, goes further: he argues that the NSS ❝ends Canada’s security discount❞ by making plain that Ottawa can no longer expect automatic deference in areas where Washington feels exposed — defence spending, Chinese influence, critical minerals, and Arctic access.5,7 This is where Wark’s ❝target❞ language comes from. The document does not single Canada out by name, nor does it contain annexationist or quasi-imperial phrasing toward Canadian territory. Brookings explicitly notes the absence of any territorial grabs (for example, no Greenland-style claim language).3 But the hemisphere framing makes clear that when Washington thinks about ports, sea lanes, high-latitude bases, and supply chains in ❝its❞ hemisphere, it sees a map on which Canadian choices can hinder or help US objectives. 5. Does the NSS Really End the Alliance with Canada? On this point, Wark is more deterministic than the raw evidence supports. His logic is: Canada under Carney is leaning into Europe: pro-Ukraine, pro-NATO, pro-EU trade diversification, and rhetorically attached to rules-based order leadership.1
December 10, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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The Hemispheric Turn in New US National Security Strategy
By Misión Verdad – Dec 9, 2025 The United Stats’ 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS),
2025-12-09T19:20:41.000Z
orinocotribune.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
japantimes.co.jp
Commentary: The Trump’s new National Security Strategy emphasizes "America First," prioritizing business, migration control and hemispheric defense while largely ignoring traditional security threats and international commitments.
Trump’s unapologetically ‘America First’ National Security Strategy
The U.S. stands taller, yet smaller, in the new National Security Strategy.
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December 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
bobweeks.bsky.social
- The "Trump Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine reasserts American preeminence in the Western Hemisphere, denying non-Hemispheric competitors ability to position forces or control strategic assets while enlisting regional champions to control migration and stop drug flows
December 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
thedimpsler.bsky.social
His handwriting is as bad as mine and I have a hemispheric congenital disability lmao
katmabu.bsky.social Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 18h
lmfao
mattheweadie.bsky.social Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 20h
This was the official objection, from Maxwell Rice, a former Republican candidate for #IL09, who filed objections to several candidates this cycle

The hearing was this morning at 9 a.m.
December 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
prequestion.bsky.social
"The new strategy establishes an essentially undifferentiated hemispheric homeland... in which the president is free to act unilaterally. Anything he perceives as misbehavior within that space becomes an actionable national security problem"
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
Opinion | Why Trump’s ‘America First’ Security Strategy Is Misguided, and Dangerous
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December 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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"The new strategy establishes an essentially hemispheric homeland — namely, North and South America — in which the president is free to act unilaterally. Anything he perceives as misbehavior within that space becomes an actionable national security problem, even though the region remains stable."
December 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
dhnexon.bsky.social
The kleptocratic elements of the admin see the “competition” as a way extracting rents via trade policy and negotiations with Beijing. The far-right does fear China, but they’d rather build a hemispheric hierarchy to support an American herrenvolk.
December 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
landofenchantment.bsky.social
Not Trump’s call anymore. He betrayed Ukraine and all of Europe. So we’re stuck with his own hemispheric insanity.
December 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
northernck.bsky.social
(notably, not limited to Latin America) as a zone of exclusive U.S. economic and strategic influence. The U.S., it says, will “deny non-Hemispheric competitors the ability to position forces… and to own or control strategically vital assets in our Hemisphere,” defining “strategically vital assets”
December 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
japantimes.co.jp
Commentary: The Trump’s new National Security Strategy emphasizes "America First," prioritizing business, migration control and hemispheric defense while largely ignoring traditional security threats and international commitments.
Trump’s unapologetically ‘America First’ National Security Strategy
The U.S. stands taller, yet smaller, in the new National Security Strategy.
ebx.sh
December 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Venezuela has reauthorized US deportation flights, and more than 13,000 people have already been sent back. Trump’s pressure campaign is reshaping hemispheric politics in real time, with migrants caught in the middle.

Read: www.barrons.com/news/venezue...
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December 9, 2025 at 7:18 AM
blowmeupagain.bsky.social
This is commonsense. We will “protect our homeland and our access to key geographies throughout the region. We will deny non-Hemispheric competitors the ability to position forces or other threatening capabilities, or to own or control strategically vital assets, in our Hemisphere.”
December 9, 2025 at 4:10 AM
christyceeck.bsky.social
The op-ed writer is Canada’s former ambassador to NATO and a senior fellow at the University of Ottawa.

Canada and Europe could be in real trouble here.

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The NSS views the Western Hemisphere (notably, not limited to Latin America) as a zone of exclusive U.S. economic and strategic influence. The U.S., it says, will “deny non-Hemispheric competitors the ability to position forces… and to own or control strategically vital assets in our Hemisphere,” defining “strategically vital assets” broadly to include critical minerals, cyber communication networks and infrastructure, too. It makes U.S. alliances contingent on countries in the Hemisphere “winding down adversarial outside influence” and buying American. The sentiment might be aimed primarily at China but the language of the NSS would apply to any outside power. This runs counter to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s plans to diversify Canada’s trade and defence relationships away from the United States. The NSS delivers a vision of extraterritorial economic nationalism that sees the sovereignty of allies, including Canada, as something “lesser” to be dominated – particularly worrying in the context of Mr. Trump’s repeated musings about using economic coercion to make Canada the 51st state. Those who thought the age of imperialism ended more than a century ago might have just been proven wrong.
December 9, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Researchers found that isoflurane facilitates hemispheric lateralization in BBB permeability, leading to different responses between the left and right hemispheres. 🧠

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December 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
a1goldheart.bsky.social
AI says it is a Confederate & Project 2025 road map.

2025 NSS is the logical outcome of an outdated Southern Confederate ethos. It revives themes of cultural purity, hierarchical order, and hemispheric dominance, which stand in tension with modern democratic values of diversity, equity & inclusion.
December 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
mitpress.bsky.social
Once "fully hypnotized by hemispheric dichotomies," @gregoryhickok.bsky.social shares how meeting his colleague David Poeppel led to them developing the theory for bilateral speech perception. An excerpt from "Wired for Words" via @thetransmitter.bsky.social:
‘Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language,’ an excerpt
In his new book, Hickok provides a detailed overview of the research into the circuits that control speech and language. In this excerpt from Chapter 5, he shares how meeting his colleague David…
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December 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
janhoby.bsky.social
Welcome to the imperialist restatement of the Monroe Doctrine: "We will deny non-Hemispheric competitors the ability to position forces or other threatening capabilities, or to own or control strategically vital assets, in our Hemisphere" #Venezuela
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
US attack on Venezuela risks ‘Vietnam-style’ regional conflict, warns Lula adviser
Brazil aide says Trump’s closure of Venezuelan airspace amounts to an ‘act of war’ that could escalate
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
poltheoryother.bsky.social
"One sometimes hears the Monroe Doctrine invoked in regard Trump’s hemispheric policies, but this is really not your grandfather’s Monroe Doctrine... It is a contradictory mess, inadequate to its own concept, incapable of achieving actuality..." - @leninology.bsky.social
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December 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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"One sometimes hears the Monroe Doctrine invoked in regard Trump’s hemispheric policies, but this is really not your grandfather’s Monroe Doctrine... It is a contradictory mess, inadequate to its own concept..." - @leninology.bsky.social

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December 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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My new book, 'The Fenian Empire: A Hemispheric History of Irish Republican Nationalism' is now live in the NYU Press catalogue and due for release in early June, fittingly on the 160th anniversary of the first major Fenian raid on Canada

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The Fenian Empire
A bold new exploration of Fenian revolutionary activity across the AmericasIn the aftermath of the American Civil War, the Fenian movement stood at a crossro...
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December 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
bagpiper59.bsky.social
Don’t American corporations already have access to hemispheric energy and materials?
December 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM