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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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