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December 05, 2025
from
RT Website
US President Donald Trump
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The
new
National
Security Strategy
calls for
a swift end to the Ukraine conflict
and
preventing
further
escalation in Europe...
The US has placed the restoration of normal ties with Russia
and a rapid end to
the Ukraine conflict at the center
of its newly released National Security Strategy, presenting
both aims as among America's core interests.
The 33-page report (2025
- National Security Strategy) outlining President
Donald Trump's foreign-policy
vision was released by the White House on Friday.
"It is a core interest of the United States
to negotiate an expeditious cessation of hostilities in
Ukraine," the paper states, "in order to stabilize European
economies, prevent unintended escalation or expansion of the
war, and reestablish strategic stability with Russia."
It notes that the Ukraine conflict has left,
"European relations with Russia... deeply
attenuated," destabilizing the region.
The report criticizes
European "leaders" for,
"unrealistic expectations" regarding the
outcome of the conflict, arguing that "a large European majority
wants peace, yet that desire is not translated into policy."
America, it says, is ready for,
"significant diplomatic engagement" to "help
Europe correct its current trajectory," reestablish stability,
and "mitigate the risk of conflict between Russia and European
states."
In contrast with the US national strategy during
Trump's first term, which emphasized competition with Russia and
China, the new strategy shifts the focus to the Western Hemisphere
and to protecting the homeland, the borders, and regional interests.
It calls for resources to be redirected from
distant theaters to challenges closer to home and urges
NATO
and European states to shoulder primary responsibility for their own
defense.
The document also calls for an end to NATO expansion -
a demand that Russia has repeatedly made, calling it a root cause of
the Ukraine conflict, which Moscow views as a Western proxy war.
Overall, the new strategy signals a shift away from global
interventionism toward a more transactional foreign policy, arguing
that the US should act abroad only when its interests are directly
at stake.
The strategy is the first of several major defense and
foreign-policy documents the Trump administration is expected to
release.
These include,
...which are expected to echo the strategy's
direction...
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