Three, two, one.

The world has turned dangerous.

Is the United States prepared to meet the new challenges it might face?

In this special series from the President's inbox,

we're bringing you conversations with Washington insiders

to assess whether the United States is ready for a new, more dangerous world.

What are America's core foreign policy interests? What should the United States want in and from the world?

The Donald Trump administration sought to answer those two questions

with the release last week of its long-awaited national security strategy.

The 29-page document lays out the administration's vision for how the United States should

achieve its national interests in a complicated world. The strategy explicitly repudiates

the foreign policy the United States has pursued since the end of the Cold War, arguing that

it undermined American

power, wealth, and decency. The congressionally mandated document reflects a shift from the stance

of previous administrations, including Mr. Trump's first term. So what is this new vision for the

United States? Will it usher in a new era of American greatness as it promises or create a new

series of problems for Washington to address.

From the Council on Foreign Relations, welcome to the president's inbox. I'm Jim Lindsay.

Joining me today is Rebecca Listerner, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy here at the Council on

Foreign Relations. Rebecca, thank you for joining me.

Thanks for having me, Jim. So, Rebecca, I know you've served in government. You were in the Biden-Harris

administration. You ended your time there as a deputy principal advisor to the vice president. But before that, you were senior director

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