Trump’s Multipolar Global Strategy
ANGLO AMERICA, 15 Dec 2025
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service
9 Dec 2025 – On 4 Dec, US President Trump released the National Security Strategy (NSS), a document outlining the United States’ global strategy. This document, which is apparently released every three to four years, has traditionally advocated a liberal, unilateral hegemonic agenda, with the United States leading allies in Europe and Japan, Australia, South Korea, and Israel to contain and deter threats such as China, Russia, and Iran, and to protect democracy and human rights around the world. This time, Trump has made a major shift. The strategy based on democracy and human rights has been wiped out. “It was a mistake for the United States to continue shouldering global hegemony after the Cold War. The US military did not need to provide free defense for its allies,” he said, reflecting a message typical of Trump, a man who renounces hegemony.
Hostility toward Russia has disappeared. Instead, he criticizes Europe for viewing Russia as a sign of “lack of confidence.” The traditional Cold War-style framework favored by the UK, in which the US and Europe cooperate to deter a villainous Russia, has been abandoned. Instead, a strategy has been put forward in which the US corrects Europe and fosters stable relations with Russia. The Russian government responded to the NSS by saying, “Our thinking is consistent,” which is understandable.
The NSS emphasizes the prosperity of civilization (national identity), arguing that the left-liberal awakening movement and DEI (as well as liberal totalitarianism such as climate change) are destroying European civilization, and that if things continue as they are, European civilization will disappear. Therefore, Europe must be revived before that happens (by making the AfD and Le Pen the ruling party and shifting it to the right). This is the same approach the Trump campaign has taken since before he took office. The Putin administration is also obsessed with civilization, suppressing the awakening movement within Russia and promoting Russian identity, and defining the “poles” of a multipolar world as groups of civilizations (in which case, Japan, with its strong cultural distinctiveness, is also one of the world’s poles).
The current NSS contains no geopolitical strategy toward Russia (nor does it include a strategy toward Israel). The NSS is intended to impress British influence still entrenched in the upper echelons of the United States and its allies, which is why it remains silent on relations with Russia and Israel, which are paramount to Trump’s global strategy. British think tanks have published numerous critical analyses of the NSS, but they are all bland, shallow, and irrelevant. Most British puppet forces, including liberal leftists and media pundits in Japan, are blind to the true nature of what is happening.
- （The National Security Strategy: The Good, the Not So Great, and the Alarm Bells）
- （Trump’s Security Strategy Is Incoherent Babble）
The NSS also states that the era of international organizations (such as the UN and Soros-affiliated NGOs) as powerful powers is over, and that nation states will become the most powerful entities. International organizations are proxies for the British, and have maintained British hegemony by using various excuses, such as democracy, humanitarianism, and the environment. However, in recent years, they have fallen prey to the Likud-affiliated manipulations and have self-destructed through a series of extremely foolish policies. Serves them right.
Until now, US global strategy, since the British dominated the core of the US, has focused first on the US-European (US-UK) relations, emphasized Russia’s villainy and the importance of democracy and human rights in order to emphasize the importance of the US-European alliance, then partnered with Israel to combat the threats of Iran and al-Qaeda, and then encircled China in the Indo-Pacific. However, in the current NSS, Americanism, with US dominance over Latin America, is placed at the forefront of regional strategy. In the multipolar world of the future, the United States will not be a global hegemon, but rather a pole that governs the Americas.
The United States issued the Monroe Doctrine in the 1820s, at the beginning of the modern era, stating, “The British Empire shall not enter the Americas.” The NSS declares, “Trump has decided to return to the Monroe Doctrine.” This marked the first step, with Venezuela’s Maduro soon resigning under pressure from Trump (although this is not mentioned in the NSS). The latest NSS indicates that multipolarity is progressing and the world has shifted to a multipolar structure. Multipolarity will be complete once the Ukraine War (the completion of Britain and Europe’s self-destruction) and the Gaza War (Israel’s rise to Middle Eastern hegemony) end.
After the Americas, Asia is now the next most important region for the United States. Given that even Hawaii and Guam are part of the United States, this is only natural in a multipolar world. Europe has fallen to third place (and is being criticized). While he mentions the Taiwan issue, he writes that this is not because Taiwan is a democracy, but because of its importance in terms of semiconductor manufacturing and trade routes. In the NSS, Trump also writes that “a conflict over Taiwan would ideally be avoided while the United States maintains military superiority (however, if the situation worsens, the Chinese military could gain an advantage over the US military).” This is the first time he has pointed out the possibility that the United States could lose to China.
- （America’s New National Security Strategy: A Surprise Departure On China Policy)
- [Annexation of Hawaii, U.S. imperialism, Hawaiian monarchy, Queen Liliuokalani, 1898, American expansion, Pacific islands]
- [Why Guam Is a Territory and Not a U.S. State]
- [History of Guam’s Imperialization]
It also states, “The defense of the area around Taiwan (the first island chain) must be undertaken not by the United States alone but together with its allies (Japan and South Korea). Japan and South Korea must spend more on their military spending.” This seems to be a way to pressure Japan and South Korea, saying, “If Japan and South Korea don’t spend more on their military spending, the United States will lose to China.” Sanae Takaichi’s mention of the Taiwan issue after Trump’s visit to Japan, angering China and creating a volatile situation, is likely intended to make Japanese people feel threatened by China and achieve Trump’s request to increase Japan’s military spending. And once again, the Chinese Communist Party is cooperating with Trump and Takaichi by staging a situation that is on the brink of military conflict with Japan.
- (Xi Jinping helps Takaichi./高市を助ける習近平）
- [How the Trump-Xi Summit Led to a Blow up in China-Japan Ties]
- [S. to press Takaichi to boost defense spending after cordial first meeting with Trump]
- [Japan’s new PM Takaichi targets 2% military spend by March]
There’s one more point regarding Asia. The NSS makes no mention of North Korea at all. Some articles have speculated that Trump didn’t mention it because he plans to meet with Kim Jong-un next year. My view is different. North Korea is now being taken care of by Putin’s Russia, Trump’s secret ally, so Trump no longer has to do anything. Previously, the United States, as a sole hegemon of British origins, had a policy of perpetually viewing China, Russia, and North Korea as enemies. However, going forward, the United States will seek stability in Eurasia (and Americanism), so if North Korea remains stable under the umbrella of Russia and China, there’s no need to do anything.
- （Trump security roadmap omits North Korea reference, raising diplomacy hopes）
- (North Korea becomes a defender of the non-American side/非米側の防人になった北朝鮮）
After 9/11, the Middle East, which had been the most important part of the US global strategy, has now fallen to the fourth place. It seems like a bit of a mystery why, given that Palestine, Iran, Syria, and Lebanon remain unstable. However, perhaps these issues have essentially overcome the hurdles of resolution under Israel’s superiority. Israel’s goal is reconciliation with the Islamic world, but the quickest way to achieve this is not to accept Islamic demands such as the creation of a Palestinian state, but rather to demand reconciliation (surrender) after completely destroying the other side’s demands. Creating a Palestinian state will not end negotiations there; it will mark the beginning of permanent negotiations. That’s why there’s no negotiation for that. They’re forcing the Israelis to accept the piles of rubble and bodies. Moreover, this is Israel’s strategy, and the United States is merely cooperating. Trump fully cooperates with Israel’s strategy because Israel will crush the British faction that is trying to crush him.
The NSS also mentions maintaining the dollar’s role as a reserve currency. I previously thought that multipolarity would advance only after the dollar’s role as a reserve currency collapsed, but that has not been the case. The dollar’s role as one of the very main reserve currencies will not collapse until multipolarity is complete. The Likud faction (Israel), the source of Trump’s power, wants the United States to maintain its strength until it establishes hegemony in the Middle East. The source of America’s strength is the dollar’s role as a very main reserve currency. China and Russia are also cooperating in extending the dollar’s role as a reserve currency. Putin has shelved the realization of a BRICS common currency (although this is due in part to the difficulty of realizing a common currency itself). Xi Jinping recently halted the rise in the price of gold bullion, the dollar’s arch enemy.
- [US Dollar Share of Global Currency Reserves in 2025]
- [Dollar Hegemony: America’s Unnamed Empire]
- [Dollar Dominance in the International Reserve System]
- [Why the US cannot afford to lose dollar dominance]
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After graduating from university, Sakai Tanaka started working at the Kyodo News Agency in 1986. From 1997 he joined Microsoft Network (MSN) and in 1999, due to change of policy at Microsoft, he became an independent journalist. Tanaka has published more than twenty books on international affairs, some translated and published in China, South Korea and Taiwan. He studied at Harvard University from 2000 to 2001. He was invitedserve as a senior researcher at the Royal Faisal Institute in Saudi Arabia in 2005. Website: tanakanews.com
Translation: Satoshi Ashikaga – Google Translate
Original in Japanese: トランプの多極型世界戦略
Tags: Anti-hegemony, Imperialism, National Security, Politics, Trump, USA
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