On a January afternoon at Mar-a-Lago, President-elect Donald Trump treated the world map like a game board. He talked about retaking the Panama Canal, pressuring Denmark to hand over Greenland, annexing Canada as the 51st state, and even renaming the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America"—a spree of fantasies TIME likened to "treating the map like a real-life Monopoly board."

Eleven months later, the punchline has become policy. In a 33-page National Security Strategy (NSS) released on December 5 , the Trump White House vows to "assert and enforce a ‘Trump Corollary’ to the Monroe Doctrine ," promising to keep the Western Hemisphere free of "hostile foreign incursion or ownership of key assets" while treating migration control as a central national-security mission.

The strategy is s

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