by Paul Street

On Thursday, December 4, the White House released a new National Security Strategy, a document that lays out the Trump’s regime’s “America First” designs on the world order.

Among the many notable aspects of the Trump regime’s new United States National Security Strategy (hereafter the “T47NSS:), and something you won’t hear much about in mainstream news and commentary, is that it is a significantly fascist document. 

Channeling far-right racist “Great Replacement Theory” and the notion of creeping “white genocide,” the T47NSS claims that Europe is facing “civilizational erasure” because of loose immigration policies. It commits the US to “promoting European greatness” by aligning with “patriotic European parties” that want to keep their nations majority white.

This is a call for US to promote racist and xenophobic nationalist, blood and soil neofascist white-nationalist parties like German’s Alternative for Germany (AfD), Vox (Spain), Austria’s Freedom Party, England’s the Netherlands’ Party for Freedom, the Swedish Democrats, the Danish People’s Party, the Brothers of Italy (Lega), France’s National Rally, and the like.

The T47NSS calls for the US to “deepen ties” with “the healthy nations of Eastern, Central, and Southern Europe,” by which the administration means nations where authoritarian, racist, nativist, and patriarchal parties hold power.

Not satisfied to promote just two of the three great pillars of fascism – white supremacism and xenophobic nationalism – the document makes a full-throated cry to the third, militant patriarchy, by declaring that the Trump regime wants to create a new American “golden age” that “cannot be accomplished without growing numbers of strong traditional families.” That is not-so veiled code language for the rolling back of women’s, gay, and trans rights in the US – a curious thing to be advocating in a foreign policy document.

Contrary to myth, fascism is imperialist, not isolationist. The T47NSS’s much ballyhooed call for a retreat from supposedly democratic US-America’s supposed democracy- and freedom-promotion in Russia, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America is not at all an argument for US global retreat.  It is a call for the US to drop all egalitarian and missionary pretense while unabashedly pursuing nothing but raw profitable advantage in dealing with other nations.

The T47NSS takes a brazenly imperialist approach to Latin America. It calls for the US to “enforce the Monroe Doctrine to restore American preeminence in the Western Hemisphere,” “protect…our access to key geographies throughout the region,” restrict Latin American immigration, prevent non-US companies from winning business contracts in Latin America, and “enlist” pro-US/pro-business governments across the region in support of US dominance.

That makes for some darkly interesting reading as the US commits cold-blooded extrajudicial executions of Venezuelan and Colombian people in the Caribbean and prepares for a possibly imminent regime change war on Venezuela.