1. United States
2. Ohio
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Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy puts his family’s and friends’ business interests with our adversaries, like Russia and China, over promises to our allies. If implemented, this plan would weaken U.S. influence across the globe and undermine our national security. The strategy, a 33-page document released late Thursday night, focuses on building up a larger military presence in the Western Hemisphere, balancing global trade, tightening border security and winning the culture war with Europe. It builds on Trump’s “America First” ideology while also providing the first explicit reference to the president replicating the Monroe Doctrine, which called for U.S. dominance in the Western Hemisphere. It totally abandons the idea that we should stand up for freedom & human rights around the world. Instead, it lectures our European allies and embraces authoritarian leaders who enrich the Trump family and their billionaire friends. The American people deserve leadership that can deliver security and prosperity. That means strengthening NATO, ensuring that Russia does not gain from its own war of aggression in Ukraine, competing seriously with China and stabilizing our neighborhood through law enforcement, diplomacy and development. Instead, President Trump has pursued a foreign policy that has left the United States isolated globally, hurt our economy, raised prices for Americans, distanced our allies and emboldened our adversaries. Maybe Trump isn't a Russian asset, but I struggle to think what a Russian asset would do differently.