Yes, the signals emerging from Donald Trump ’s White House have appeared at times to be petulant, contradictory, scattershot, or simply shot from the hip.

But be assured, or disturbed, that there is a coherent strategy — or at least an official 29-page paper bearing that name.

Released online late on Thursday night, the 2025 National Security Strategy is a document the occupant of the Oval Office is required by law to deliver to Congress.

But it is also a window into the dramatic shift in America’s official world view under Trump — and his urgent focus on what the paper describes as “the interests we must focus on above all others, and that we ignore or neglect at our peril.”

Those interests are America’s borders and its economy, which Trump wants to reinforce and bolster, largely

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