The National Security Strategy document released by the Trump administration this week made immediate waves. In addition to the provocative claim that Europe is facing "civilizational erasure," it contains expansive thoughts about the Americas.

"The United States must be preeminent in the Western Hemisphere as a condition of our security and prosperity — a condition that allows us to assert ourselves confidently where and when we need to in the region," the National Security Strategy reads.

Even before the document came out, the Wall Street Journal had been regularly using the term "Donroe Doctrine," coined by one analyst to describe the second Trump presidential administration's approach to its own hemisphere, citing factors that included adopting Canada as another American state.

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