Alwaght- In an appearance with his British counterpart Mark Sedwill, the US National Security Advisor General H. R. McMaster on December 12 outlined the most important aspects of the new American national security doctrine. They came in four priorities: Protection of the homeland and American people, advancing the American prosperity, preserving peace through strength, and advancing the American influence.


The American president is set to unveil the document of the new American national security strategy on December 18. The irrational functions of the American president both at home and in the country�s foreign policy have doubled significance of unveiling of the new national security strategy that will highlight the national interests as well as the threats and their sources and the ways to prevent and repulse them.


According to the American national security advisor, Russia and China, and then North Korea and Iran will be marked the top threats to the US national security and Washington�s position of the global leadership. The General took a warning tone on Russia, saying: �We are facing a threat from Russia that involves also so-called new generation warfare.� He as part of the Russia-related comments touched on the American intelligence community�s assessment of Russian attempts to influence the American presidential elections last year, adding �These are very sophisticated campaigns of subversion and disinformation, and propaganda, using cyber tools operating across multiple domains that attempt to divide our communities within our nations."


General McMaster blasted China for what he called Beijing�s �economic aggression.� He said China has challenged the global law-based economic order, causing hundreds of millions of people around the world to live in poverty.� The advisor, moreover, asked the Chinese officials to do more in relation to the North Korean nuclear crisis. He said that this call could mark the best and last opportunity to steer clear of military confrontation with Pyongyang.


The American official also had his words on Iran, maintaining that the new American strategy will seek to counter the Islamic Republic in not only the embattled Syria but also the whole West Asia region. He added that this encounter will go while efforts to block Iran�s alleged efforts to build nuclear weapons will go on unceasingly.


America First policy: Walking towards isolation


One of the major mottos of Donald Trump during 2016 presidential campaign was "America First" policy. For the American president, there are no such things as �global anthem�, �global currency�, and �global flag.� Nevertheless, the American businessman believes that his "Job is not to represent the world," emphasizing that "My job is to represent the United States of America".


When it comes to the comparison with his precedents, Trump�s strategy is way different. The national security of the former President Barack Obama, published in 2015, focused on such concepts as multilateralism, smart power, and the need to tackle the climate changes. Obama�s predecessor George W. Bush national security accentuated the American alleged commitment to opening up the closed societies and defending the democracy and human rights. But Trump�s key national security strategy lines isolate the US from such things as global security efforts, boosting peace, and promoting democracy in other countries. Instead, the core tenets of his strategy are the advancing prosperity, protecting the Americans, and expanding Washington�s influence worldwide. Here is the American strategy under Trump in short: The US stages irresponsible interventionism, in which the American prosperity should be saved instead of enlarged, and, foreign economic powers are considered rivals rather than partners. In this new strategic pathway, the US role-playing on the global stage will be devoted to the cases and regions where the country�s interests are directly involved. In the brand-new vision, the realization of interests will less be pursued through multi-polar international organizations, modalities, and regimes. Instead, the concentration will be on bipolar balance-making deals with each of the rival powers, similar to the 19th century fragile and flowing accords between the powers on specific cases.


Therefore, under the new leadership, the US seeks preserving the past achievements rather than creating opportunities for more partnership with the others. This is drawing opposition from allies. Europe as the closest ally of the US comes against Washington�s unilateral decisions like withdrawing from Paris climate agreement, challenging the Obama-era nuclear deal with Iran, and very recently the controversial recognition of al-Quds (Jerusalem) as the Israeli regime's capital. Such conflict of views with the allied EU will certainly bring isolation to the US. Therefore, Trump himself is setting up major roadblocks ahead of the global American influence.


Confrontational policy to save the current position


The revision of the national security strategy in less than three years accentuates the White House leader�s growing concerns over the wavering position of the US as a global superpower which was gained after the breakup of the rival Soviet Union whose existence ensured a bipolar global order. In the recent years, concomitant with the decline of the US role and effect on various intentional cases was the rise of such new powers as Russia, China, and the European Union, three of which proving to be challengers, though in various degrees, to the American might. Among the other two, China, with its extraordinary economic growth and military strength boost, presented most challenging force to the US hegemony on the world arena.


McMaster also said that in recent years the US cleared the rivalry scene and so gave opportunities to what he called �revisionist powers�, in a reference to China and Russia. His reference was apparently to the Obama�s policies, including pulling out of Iraq and partially from Afghanistan and failing to meet expectations of the regional allies for Washington's direct role in crises such as Syria and Ukraine that flattened the way of the Russian influence boost in West Asia and Eastern Europe. Other US fallacious policies, according to McMaster, involved failing to seriously check Beijing�s rapid economic upturn and geopolitical expansionism in East Asia and posing threats to US allies in the region. In McMaster�s eye, signing the nuclear agreement with Iran and neglecting the Israeli and Saudi calls for adequately pressing Tehran under Obama was another flaw of the previous administration.