What Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy Means For The World

CONFLICTED

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History, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In this Conflicted Conversation, Thomas speaks with global finance and security analyst Giri Rajendran about the Trump Administration’s newly published National Security Strategy — what it signals, what it omits, and what it suggests about America’s role in a multipolar world. Thomas and Giri discuss: How this report differs from previous US National Security Strategies The end of the old rules-based order of liberal internationalism The Middle East: a phase shift toward deeper economic engagement China: economic and industrial competition, not ideological crusade Europe: NATO burden-sharing, culture-war politics, and coercion by inducement Russia as a potential ally, no longer an enemy Whether global governance can exist without global institutions Follow Giri on X here: https://x.com/Trajan1898 Join the Conflicted Community here: https://conflicted.supportingcast.fm Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MHconflicted And Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MHconflicted And Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/conflictedpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Conflicted is a Message Heard production. Executive Producers: Jake Warren & Max Warren. This episode was produced and edited by Thomas Small. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:04.0	For decades, American power rested on a simple assumption
1:09.1	that global markets and shared rules would spend power rested on a simple assumption,
1:15.6	that global markets and shared rules would spread prosperity and make war between great powers unthinkable.
1:21.6	But what if that assumption was only ever true under very specific conditions, conditions that no longer exist.
1:33.3	Last week, the Trump administration published its new national security strategy.
1:39.3	Many old certainties are permanently abandoned.
1:43.3	It speaks less about values and more about power,
1:47.0	less about institutions, and more about states, and it makes ruthless competition a permanent
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