The US National Security Strategy positions country for global thuggery — Sachs Jeffrey Sachs argues that President Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy is an ominous blueprint not for stability but for global thuggery, a doctrine of coercion that dangerously mistakes bullying for sovereignty. Written in the language of overwhelming... supremacy and naked Machiavellianism, it treats American dominance as a license to impose terms, asking not how nations can cooperate but how US leverage can be used to extract maximal concessions. It insists that agreements with dependent nations must result in sole-source contracts for American firms and efforts to “push out foreign companies.” In this framework, international law is dismissed as an encumbrance, and sovereignty is perversely redefined as “the freedom to coerce others”—a conception Sachs warns will “come back to haunt the United States.” This doctrine, he notes, is already being translated into brazen practice. The US seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker on the high seas—an act “not remotely legal”—signals a turn toward open coercion. So too does the NSS’s “Trump Corollary,” which demands Latin America remain free of “hostile foreign incursion”—a move Sachs calls naïve and self-defeating. He frames it as a radical historical break: where the original 1823 Monroe Doctrine was a “doctrine of reciprocity” aimed at ending European colonialism, Trump’s version amounts to a license for US hegemony and brazen bullying, a claim of “American bullying rights in the Americas.” The damage now alarms even core allies, as evidenced by Denmark’s public fear of US coercion over Greenland, revealing a systemic crisis of confidence within the US-led order itself. For Sachs, the gravest failure is the omission of law, reciprocity, and decency. By rejecting global governance and bending institutions toward narrow advantage—effectively putting “the generals in charge of the economy” in a paranoid drive to exclude rivals—the strategy abandons the rules that protect power. He invokes Thucydides’ Athens to warn that “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must,” a hubris that leads to isolation. “American security will not be strengthened by acting like a bully,” he concludes. “It will be weakened—structurally, morally, and strategically.” True security, he insists, rests on persuasion, pluralism, and the recognition that sovereignty is strengthened, not diminished, through law.show more

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