Spectators on the beach view an aerial demonstration during the National Salute to Americas Heroes Air and Sea Show May 28, 2017 in Miami Beach, Florida. (Credit Image: © Brandon Kalloo Sanes/Planet Pix via ZUMA Wire) PA Images. All rights reserved.
In the middle of December 2017, the Trump administration announced a new National Security Strategy (NSS). It is a series of premises and objectives based on the doctrine of political realism (as explicitly assumed in the document), oriented towards “reestablishing America’s position of power in the world”. It summarizes the goals to follow in order to protect “American interests” – which are the interests of a privileged and influential decision-making minority, though they seem to be presented as “the interests of the American people”.
It is important to note that one of the characteristics of the Trump administration in terms of foreign policy is the gap between incendiary discourse, full of threats and vehement rhetoric, and its decision-making, which on occasion tends to minimize such positions – from the supposed punishment it was to inflict upon the Chinese, to the threat to immediately leave the North American
