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The Trump Doctrine, by Srdja Trifkovic – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Srdja Trifkovic, Chronicles, January 2026

Dr. Srdja Trifkovic, foreign affairs editor of Chronicles, is the author of The Sword of the Prophet and Defeating Jihad.

READ: “National Security Strategy of the United States of America”, November 2025

Donald Trump (image from: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

“What a divine surprise!” exclaimed Charles Maurras, upon learning of Marshal Pétain’s rise to power in France in July 1940. The veteran leader of L’Action française expected the new regime to overturn the legacy of the republican, secular, masonic “anti-France” he hated with a passion.

In this hope, Maurras was disappointed: Pétain was outwitted by outright Nazi collaborationists. His turn of phrase nevertheless describes President Donald Trump’s December 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) for those who hope America can be once again a regular nation in its foreign affairs: powerful, secure, and focused on its pragmatic interests, in the realist tradition.

The president prefaced the 33-page document as “a roadmap to ensure America remains the greatest and most successful nation in human history and the home of freedom on earth.”

These lofty words smack of exceptionalist megalomania—they could have come from any standard neocon/neolib scribe—but what follows is a sound and coherent strategic platform based on flexible realism. The NSS opens with what amounts to a break with the decades-long quest for American global hegemony: ….

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