Vincent J. Curtis
1 Feb 26
Continuing in pedagogic exegesis, Trump asks, “1) What should the United States want? 2) What are our available means to get it? and 3) How can we connect ends and means into a viable National Security Strategy?” Trump’s answer to the first question is a lengthy and detailed essay in itself. In the overall, America should want safety as an independent republic, safety from attack by hostile foreign powers, from hostile influences, from espionage, predatory trade practices, drug and human trafficking, and cultural subversion. In these answers one can see the reason for the Golden Dome, the push for Greenland, his chasing China out of Panama and Venezuela, and his personal animosity to America’s political Left, whom he regards as culturally subversive.
Next up are Trump’s concerns for control of America’s borders and its immigration system, concerns which, along with DEI, fall under the rubric of cultural subversion.
The heart of Trump’s proximate end is this: “We want the world’s most robust industrial base. American national power depends on a strong industrial sector capable of meeting both peacetime and wartime production demands. That requires not only direct defense industrial production capacity but also defense-related production capacity. Cultivating American industrial strength must become the highest priority of national economic policy.” This is the basis for Trump’s tariff policies, and his goal of ending America’s trade deficit with the world.
The aircraft carrier USS Yorktown was badly damaged at the Battle of the Coral Sea, and she was desperately needed for the Battle of Midway. Repair was estimated to require some weeks. Upon docking at Pearl Harbor, 1400 dock workers on their own set to work for 72 straight hours patching up Yorktown, and got her ready for battle. Could America do this today? Doubtful. America’s auto industry worked miracles of productions during WWII.
Trump has seen the war by the Left on the sources of American power generation, first nuclear, then hydro, and since 1992, coal. Alleged “climate change” is seen by Trump as meant to cripple American power. “We want the world’s most robust, productive, and innovative energy sector—one capable not just of fueling American economic growth but of being one of America’s leading export industries in its own right.” America’s exports of LNG and crude oil to Europe reduces Europe’s dependence on Russia, and every barrel of Venezuelan and Alberta crude America imports means another barrel of American crude at the service of American foreign and economic policy.
When it comes to “soft power”, Trump is not all brutality, and reveals a deftness that arises from experience in dealing with Middle Eastern potentiates, “we exercise positive influence throughout the world that furthers our interests. In doing so, we will be unapologetic about our country’s past and present while respectful of other countries’ differing religions, cultures, and governing systems.”
Trump closes his overall aim with a normative end for American culture, “Finally, we want the restoration and reinvigoration of American spiritual and cultural health, without which long-term security is impossible. We want an America that cherishes its past glories and its heroes, and that looks forward to a new golden age. We want a people who are proud, happy, and optimistic that they will leave their country to the next generation better than they found it. We want a gainfully employed citizenry—with no one sitting on the sidelines—who take satisfaction from knowing that their work is essential to the prosperity of our nation and to the well-being of individuals and families. This cannot be accomplished without growing numbers of strong, traditional families that raise healthy children.” Could Canada want less for itself?
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