The Donald Trump administration revealed the US empire's new plan for global dominance in the 2025 National Security Strategy. The goal is to impose hegemony in the Western Hemisphere, reviving the colonial Monroe Doctrine, to move supply chains out of Asia and bring manufacturing into Latin America via "nearshoring", in order to economically decouple from China and prepare for conflict in Cold War Two. Ben Norton analyzes the important document.
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Topics
0:00 Summary of US National Security Strategy
2:45 US economic dependency on China
5:25 USA loses China war games
6:45 Why Trump targets Latin America
7:41 Marco Rubio, war hawk
9:34 (CLIP) Marco Rubio on China "threat"
10:17 Main goals of Trump's foreign policy
10:35 Improve Russia relations
11:30 Brief summary of US strategy
12:01 Western media misunderstands report
13:24 Whitewashing US imperialism
14:45 Obama's pivot to Asia
15:18 Asia is 1/2 of global economy
16:05 Hillary Clinton's "Russia reset"
16:34 Second Cold War aims at China
17:38 Main goals of US foreign policy
21:29 First target: Latin America
23:13 Second target: China
24:37 US dollar dominance
25:47 (CLIP) Trump threatens BRICS
26:16 Weaponizing technology
26:44 Natural resources in Americas
27:27 Hypocritical buzzwords
29:38 Culture war
32:00 Regions targeted by US empire
32:22 Colonial Monroe Doctrine
33:51 "Enlisting" US vassals
35:30 Nearshoring manufacturing
37:58 Militarizing Latin America
39:04 USA threatens countries
40:30 Natural resources
41:30 "US must be preeminent"
41:55 Cutting off Chinese technology
42:58 Goal: "an American-led world"
43:59 US government serves corporations
45:51 Strategy in "Indo-Pacific" region
46:21 Criticizing China's independence
47:17 Pacific: 21st century's "battleground"
47:52 Asia is half of world GDP (PPP)
49:08 Decline of Western hegemony
51:04 Supply chains
51:31 Economic war
52:21 India
55:12 Japan, South Korea, Australia
57:22 Dollar as global reserve currency
57:45 Taiwan
1:01:28 Europe
1:02:20 Russia
1:03:15 EU as captive US market
1:04:47 West Asia (Middle East)
1:05:18 Oil and natural gas
1:06:19 Israel
1:06:56 Africa
1:08:15 Conclusion
1:08:49 Outro
