http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/57a6562752d95318 https://verfassungsblog.de/we-own-it-so-we-can-break-it/ We Own It, So We Can Break It - The Trump National Security Strategy 2025 as Skeleton Key Landauer, Carl eng 2026-02-18 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Foreign Policy National Defense Strategy National Security Strategy US hemispheric hegemony USA USA Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Standing next to Volodymyr Zelensky days before the Nicolás Maduro extraction, Donald Trump asserted, “we’re protected by a thing called the Atlantic Ocean.” His statement sounded at once naïve and antiquarian in a globalized world of cyberattacks and US worldwide presence. But it is part of the hemispheric charge moving his National Security Strategy 2025 away from the China-centric anxieties. The NSS provides keys to other elements of the administration’s foreign policy, including relations with China, Russia, and Europe; recovery of dusty spheres-of-influence and balance-of-power talk; and the focus on “Western civilization”.