WASHINGTON — The White House on Friday released President Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy, a document that reads as a deliberate break from the post–Cold War script and a reset of American priorities. Short sentences punch. Longer ones explain. The tone is unapologetic. America, it argues, must put its own survival—cultural as much as military or economic—ahead of open-ended ideological crusades. At its core is a hierarchy: homeland first, hemisphere second, selective engagement everywhere else. The phrase “flexible realism” appears early and often. So does the idea that culture itself has become strategic terrain. Europe, the document warns, is undergoing … Continue reading Trump’s National Security Strategy: A Sharper, Narrower, More Cultural America First