President Trump’s new National Security Strategy describes a country that is focused on doing business and reducing migration while avoiding passing judgment on authoritarians.
President Trump at the White House last month. The National Security Strategy his administration released describes a world in which American interests are far narrower than how prior administrations — even in his first term — had portrayed them.
The president wanted Moscow and Kyiv to come to terms by Thanksgiving. Negotiations are now stalled, leaving the White House to decide if an agreement is possible anytime soon.
“It does take two to tango,” President Trump said after his envoys left a meeting in Moscow with no major breakthroughs in their meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.