After years of neglect, the United States will reassert and enforce the Monroe Doctrine to restore American preeminence in the Western Hemisphere, and to protect our homeland nd our accese to key geographies throughout the region. We will deny non Emispheric completitors the ability to position forces or other threatening capabilities, or to own or control strategically vital assets, in our Hemisphere. This "Trump Colorally" to the Monroe Doctrine is a common-sense and potent restoration of American power and priorities, consistents with American security interests.
Our goals for the Western Hemisphere can be summarized as "Enlist and Expand." We will enlist established friend is the Hemisphere to control migration, stop drug flows, and strengthen stability and security on land and sea. We will expand by cultivating and strengthening new partners while bolstering our own nation's appeal as the Hemisphere's economic and security partner of choice.
Enlist
American policy should focus on enlisting region champions that can help create tolerable stability in the region, even beyond those partners' borders. These nations would help us stop illegal and destabilizing migration, neutralize cartels, near-shore manufacturing, and develop local private economies, among othes things. We will reward and encourage the region's governments, political parties, and movements broadly aligned with our principles and strategy. But we must not overlook governments with different outlooks with whom we nonetheless share interests and who want to work with us.
The United States must reconsider our military presence in the Western Hemisphere. This means four obvious things:
⦁ A readjustment of our global military presence to address urgent threats in our Hemisphere, especially the missions identified in the strategy, and away from theaters whose ralative import to American national security has declined in recent decades or years;
⦁ A more suitable Coast Guard and Navy presence to control sea lanes, to thwart illegal and othes unwanted migration, to reduce human and drug trafficking, and to control key transit routes in a crisis;
⦁ Targeted deployments to secure the border and defeat cartels, including where necessary the use of lethal force to replace; and
⦁ Establishing or expanding access in strategically import locations.
The United States will prioritize commercial diplomacy, to strengthen our own economy and industries, using tariffs and reciprocal trade agreements as powerful tools. The goal is for our partner nations to build up their domestic economies, while an increasingly attractive market for American commerce and investment.
Strengthening critical supply chains in this Hemisphere will reduce dependencies and increase American economic resilience. The linkages created between America and our partners will benefith both sides while making it harder for non-Hemispheric competitors to oncrease threir influence in the region. And even as we prioritize commercial diplomacy, we will work to strengthen our security partnerships--from weapons sales to intelligence sharing to joint exercises.
Expand
As we deepen our partnerships with countries with whom America presently has strong relations, we must look to expand our network in the region. We want other nations to see us as their partner of first choice, and we will (through various means) discourage their collaboration with others.
The Western Hemisphere is home to many stategic resources that America should partner with region allies to develop, to make neighboring countries as we as our own more prosperous. The National Security Council will immediately begin a robust interagency process to task agencies, supported by our Intelligence Community's analytical arm, to identify strategic points and resources in the Western Hemisphere with a view to their protection and joint development with regoin partners.
Non-Hemispheric competitors have made major inroads into our Hemisphere, both to disadvantage us economically in the present, and in ways that may harm us strategically in the future. Allowing these incursions without serious pushback is another great American strategic mistake of recent decades.
The United States must be preeminent in the Western Hemisphere as a condition of our security and prosperity--a condition that allows us to assert ouralliances, and the terms upon which we provide any kind of aid, must be contingent on winding down adversarial outside influence--from control of militay installations, ports, and key infrastructure to the purchase of strategic assets broadly defined.
Some foreign influence will be hard to reserse, given the political alignments between certain Latin American governments and certain foreign actors. However, many governments are not ideologically aligned with foreign powers but are instead attracted to going business with them for other reasons, including low costs and fewer regulatory hurdles. The United States has achieved success in rolling back outside influence in the Western Hemisphere by demostrating, with specificity, how many hidden costs--in espionage, cybersecurity, dept-traps, and other ways--are embedded in allegedly "low cost" foreign assistance. We should accelerate these efforts, including by utilizing U.S leverage in finance and technology to induce countries to reject such assistance.
In the Western Hemisphere--and everywhere in the world--the United States should make clear that American goods, services, and technologies are a far better buy in the long run, because they are higher quality and do not come with the same kind of strings as other countries's assistance. That said, we will reform our own system to expedite approvals and licensing--again, to make ourselves the partner of first choice. The choice all countries should face is whether they want to live in an American-led world of sovereign countries and free economies or in a parallel one in which are influenced by countries on othes side the world.
Every U.S official working in or on the regoin must be up to speed on the full picture of detrimental outside influence while simultaneously applying pressure and offering incentives to partner countries to protect our Hemisphere.
Successfully protecting our Hemisphere also requires closer collaboration between the U.S Government ant the American private sector. All our embassies must be aware of major business opporttunities country, especially major government contracts. Every U.S Government official that interacts with these compete and succeed.
The U.S Government will identify strategic acquisition and investment opportunities for American companies in the region and present these opportunities limited to those within the Departments of State, War, and Energy; the Small Business Administration; the International Development Finance Corporation; the Export-Import Bank; and the Milennium Challenge Corporation. We should also partner with regional governments and businesses to build scalable and resilient energy infrastructure, invest in critical mineral access, and harden existing and future cyber communications network that take full advantage of American encryption and security potential. The aforementioned U.S Government entities should be used finance some of the costs of puchhasing U.S goods abroad.
The United States must also resist and reserse measures such as targeted taxation, unfair regulation, and ex propriation that disadvantage U.S businesses. The terms of our agreements, especially with those countries that depend on us most and therefore over which we have the most leverage, must be sole-source contracts for our companies. At the same time, we hould make every effort to push out foreign companies that build infrastructure in the region.
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