Well, howdy there, Internet people it spell again.

So today, we're going to talk about Trump's national security strategy.

The White House quietly released President Donald Trump's new 33-page national security strategy.

We've gotten a lot of questions about this asking to break it down.

There will be endless videos and articles detailing all of the insults and shade cast on our allies.

So, instead of rehashing Trump's outrage of the week, which is probably designed to push the Heggsett scandals off the top of the U.S. foreign policy news cycle.

We're going to talk about what the doctrine actually entails.

First and foremost, this isn't a U.S. national security document.

It's a Trump document.

The goal of this is not unified U.S. national interests.

It's catering to Trumpian rhetoric at the expense of U.S. security and foreign policy interests.

Economic nationalism isn't really even hidden in the document. It's just there. If this doctrine was fully implemented,

Major General Smedley Butler's famous quote would ring even more true today than it did when he said,

quote, I spent 33 years and four months in active military service.

And during that period, I spent most of my time as a high-class muscle man for big business,

for Wall Street and the bankers.

In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

If fully implemented, wars would be fought over economics, and this would probably eventually bring us back to a period of direct colonization and empire building.

Overall, it outlines a transactional foreign policy focused on what it calls the protection of core national interests.

There are a couple of lines in it that in normal foreign policy language would mean the U.S. would be

involved in less interventionist behavior. But when you're looking at the document as a whole, instead

of just a few quotes sprinkled in for the base, it becomes clear that there will likely

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