{"id":727,"date":"2026-03-19T20:23:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccd5cc1c8d1ba721f7ca32220c80fab5"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:00:41","slug":"trumps-nds-treats-foreign-policy-like-a-property-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/?p=727","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s NDS treats foreign policy like a property deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/trumps-nds-treats-foreign-policy-like-a-property-deal.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>For those with pre-existing ethical or policy reservations about President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/link\/follow-20180101-p5nx6z\">Donald Trump,<\/a> the National Defence Strategy adds fuel to the fire. Released last November, the National Security Strategy was the manifesto document that divided the world into regions.<\/p>\n<p>The just-released NDS builds on the NSS and identifies the western hemisphere as America\u2019s primary region of interest. The document diminishes notions such as the rules-based order and focuses at least as much on the shortfalls of allies as threats posed by adversaries.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those with pre-existing ethical or policy reservations about President Donald Trump, the National Defence Strategy adds fuel to the fire. Released last November, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-more"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}