From the New York Times, I'm Natalie Kittrowef. This is the date.

From slamming Europe and abandoning our commitments to our closest allies there, to carrying out a lethal U.S. military campaign in the Caribbean,

President Trump has overseen an aggressive foreign policy that hasn't always been easy to understand.

But the White House has now unveiled a national security strategy that offers a justification for those actions, laying bare Trump's true goals

and alarming countries around the world. Today, my colleague David Sanger explains what the

strategy actually is and how the emerging Trump doctrine it represents may change America's global relationships for good.

It's Friday, December 12th.

David, our resident foreign policy expert, it's great to have you here.

Natalie, always great to be with you.

There has been a lot of debate on the right among voters about Trump's focus on international

affairs, a notion that he's not following through on his stated agenda of putting America

and Americans first. And it's true that Trump in his second term has been extremely active around the world.

He's been engaging in a trade war with China.

He's bombed Iran's nuclear facility, brokered a ceasefire in Gaza.

There's been the recent boat strikes in Latin America.

And through all that, it hasn't always been all that clear exactly how all of these actions

cohere. But now the Trump administration

has released this document that tries to articulate the country's foreign policy strategy,

that tries to make sense of it all. So first of all, what is this document?

So this is the national security strategy,

and administrations don't turn it out because they want to.

They turn it out because they have to.

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