Trump's new national security priorities.
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Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
On Thursday, the Trump administration released its 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS), a document outlining the administration’s priorities for U.S. foreign policy. In the document, the administration provides overviews of its policies in the Western Hemisphere, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Key goals include refocusing on regional relationships, increasing economic power while avoiding conflict in the Pacific, protecting freedom and security in Europe, pursuing lasting peace and economic partnership in the Middle East, and maintaining U.S. dominance in the technological sector.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:08.4 | Tangle. |
| 0:10.4 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of our take. |
| 0:30.4 | I'm your host today, senior editor Will KVak, and today we're going to be talking about the Trump administration's new national security strategy. |
| 0:39.0 | This is a document that every presidential administration releases, and it outlines the administration's |
| 0:44.2 | priorities for U.S. foreign policy for the term. So it's a pretty standard document, but Trump's |
| 0:50.7 | second term, NSS, as it's referred to, has made headlines and sparked quite a bit of debate |
| 0:56.8 | recently because of how it shifted some of those priorities, both from Trump's first term and from |
| 1:02.1 | recent presidential administrations overall. So we're going to go into what some of those priority |
| 1:07.2 | changes look like, what the consequences of those changes could be, and how it fits |
| 1:11.3 | in with the broader Trump administration agenda. Before we do that, though, want to flag that we have a |
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| 2:05.8 | over to John to take us through today's topic and the perspectives from the left, right, |
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