📜 The Don-roe Doctrine

When President Donald Trump released the latest version of the United States’ National Security Strategy, the most striking shift for many may have been the rhetorical hostility toward Europe, or the downplaying of China and Russia. But for Latin Americans, it was about geography. For the first time in decades, Washington’s organizing principle is not great-power competition abroad but dominance at home — and especially in the Western Hemisphere.

The NSS 2025 made no explicit reference to “major power competition,” a concept central to both Trump’s first term and the Biden administration. Instead, it frames global politics as a matter of “balances of power” among “larger, richer and stronger nations,” implicitly accepting spheres of influence and rejecting what it calls the “ill-fated concept of global domination”…

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