U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media on board Air Force One on October 31, 2025 at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. Samuel Corum/Getty Images

“America Alone” might be the simplest précis of the White House’s new National Security Strategy , an extraordinary document released Friday that starkly lays out the administration’s broad foreign policy priorities.

In a 33-page wall of words and grievances that self-summarizes as “America First,” it manages to reject European allies with a borderline racist swipe, concede the United States must share power with China and search for new allies in the Western Hemisphere, where currently Washington has few. At times, it would be facile enough to be funny, but the stakes are anything but.

“The days of the United States propp

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