The document declares Washington's departure from the philosophy of sole responsibility for the world order
WASHINGTON, December 5. /TASS/. The White House has published an updated National Security Strategy of the United States.
The document declares Washington's departure from the philosophy of sole responsibility for the world order, indicates a desire to achieve strategic stability in relations with Russia and notes the remaining contradictions with Europe.
TASS has summed up key points of the strategic document.
- The United States will no longer prop up the entire world order "like Atlas" and wants other countries to assume responsibility for regional defense.
- The White House intends to "align the actions of our allies and partners" with its own joint interests to prevent "domination by any single competitor nation."
- The United States wants to end the perception of NATO as "a perpetually expanding alliance."
- Washington believes that "a world on fire" engulfed in regional conflicts threatens the country's national interests. The priority is to end them.
- The United States considers reestablishing strategic stability with Russia one of key foreign policy priorities in Europe.
- The US core interest is a cessation of hostilities in Ukraine.
- The United States believes that the Indo-Pacific region will be among this century's key economic and geopolitical battlegrounds.
- Washington plans to strengthen commercial and other relations with New Delhi.
- Deterrence of a potential conflict over Taiwan, including military overmatch, is a priority for the country.
- The United States should focus on trade with China only in non-strategic goods.
- The White House no longer views the Middle East as the dominant factor determining foreign policy.
- The United States intends to work to stabilize Syria and transform it from a "problem" into an integral and positive player in the Middle East.
- Washington should stop trying to push Middle Eastern countries to abandon their traditions, reforms in the region will be encouraged, but without attempts to impose them from outside.
- The US administration finds itself "at odds" with European officials, many of whom "trample" on basic principles of democracy.
- Washington wants Europe to take responsibility for its own defense.
- The White House expects to build up "the healthy nations" of Eastern and Central Europe through commercial and defense deals.
- Washington has rejected the "disastrous "climate change" and "Net Zero" ideologies that have so greatly harmed Europe, threaten the United States, and subsidize our adversaries."