CONFLICTED What Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy Means For The World
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Dec 18, 2025 Geary Rajendran, a political and financial analyst based in Singapore, shares insights on the 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy. He highlights its departure from the old liberal order and the shift towards prioritizing economic security and industrial competition, especially with China. Rajendran argues that the U.S. is moving to deepen economic ties in the Middle East while reconsidering Russia as a potential ally. The discussion also covers NATO’s burden-sharing challenges in Europe and the implications of multipolarity in global governance.
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Strategy As The Government's North Star
- The national security strategy is the US government's highest-level strategic document and aligns agency priorities.
- Geary Rajendran says its clarity cascades into defense and intelligence plans across the bureaucracy.
Economics Now Central To Security
- Recent US strategies share an economic-security arc, treating economic strength as national security.
- Geary highlights the 2025 strategy's explicit push to prioritize American industrial capacity above all.
Less Rhetoric, Same Competition
- The 2025 document downplays explicit 'great power competition' language compared with 2017.
- Geary argues Trump treats big powers as obvious rivals and thus omits repetitive rhetoric.