Trump Considers 'Big Power' Cooperation to Replace Globalist World Order

Dec. 19—Last week, Defense One, which often serves as a leak sheet for the defense establishment, published a story claiming that it has viewed an earlier version of the National Security Strategy 2025 which contained plans of the Trump administration to replace the existing globalist structure for ruling the present world order. Citing this document, Defense One reported that Trump wanted to replace the existing structures, such as the Group of 7 economic powers, with what was called the “Core 5”—the U.S., Russia, China, India, and Japan.

The article, headlined, “‘Make Europe Great Again’ and More from a Longer Version of the National Security Strategy,” purports to outline “the Trump Administration’s plans for shedding old relationships and creating new ones.”

On the C5, it states: “Over the summer, President Trump made headlines when he lamented the expulsion of Russia from the Group of Eight—now the Group of Seven—as a ‘very big mistake.’ He even suggested that he’d like to see China added to form a ‘G9.’

“His national security strategy proposes taking this a step further, creating a new body of major powers, one that isn’t hemmed in by the G7’s requirements that the countries be both wealthy and democratically governed.

“The strategy proposes a ‘Core 5,’ or C5, made up of the U.S., China, Russia, India and Japan—which are several of the countries with more than 100 million people. It would meet regularly, as the G7 does, for summits with specific themes.

“First on the C5’s proposed agenda: Middle East security—specifically, normalizing relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia.”

Debate Over ‘American Hegemony’ and Post–Cold War Policy

The document viewed by Defense One spends some time discussing the “failure” of “American hegemony,” a term that isn’t mentioned in the publicly released version. “Hegemony is the wrong thing to want, and it wasn’t achievable,” according to the document. In this context, hegemony refers to the leadership by one country of the world, using soft power to encourage other countries to consent to being led.

“After the end of the Cold War, American foreign policy elites convinced themselves that permanent American domination of the entire world was in the best interests of our country,” Defense One quotes the document. “Yet the affairs of other countries are our concern only if their activities directly threaten our interests.”

“The Trump administration inherited a world in which the guns of war have shattered the peace and stability of many countries on many continents,” the document reads. “We have a natural interest in ameliorating this crisis.”

The document says it shouldn’t be up to the United States to do it all alone—while Russia and China must not be allowed to replace U.S. leadership around the world, we must also seek to work with them and collaborate where our interests overlap, finding common ground. The Core 5 would appear to provide a structure for such collaboration of the great nuclear superpowers.

White House Denial and Policy Paper Background

“We will reward and encourage the region’s governments, political parties, and movements broadly aligned with our principles and strategy,” according to the document. “But we must not overlook governments with different outlooks with whom we nonetheless share interests and who want to work with us.”

The White House strongly denied the existence of any versions of the NSS other than the one released Dec. 4.

“No alternative, private, or classified version exists,” spokeswoman Anna Kelly told Defense One. “President Trump is transparent and put his signature on one NSS that clearly instructs the U.S. government to execute on his defined principles and priorities.”

Kelly then added that “any other so-called ‘versions’ are leaked by people distant from the President who, like this ‘reporter,’ have no idea what they are talking about.’”

But sources close to the White House report that there were numerous policy papers prepared to enhance the discussions that shaped the NSS. These sources say that Defense One may have been given access to one of those papers.

Debate Over New Global Architecture

The sources also report that there is an ongoing discussion about a new economic development and security architecture to replace the failed institutions of the current dysfunctional globalist order, and that the President himself is playing a role in such discussions.

The existing structures, such as the G-7 (which was formerly the G-8, and included Russia before it was expelled by the Biden administration and the Europeans after its actions in Ukraine) must be replaced by ones that allow global economic and military power to take responsible actions to improve the condition of life—without military conflict—on this planet.

While some of Trump’s advisors continue to view Russia and China as adversary opponents of the U.S. that have to be confronted to stop the expansion of their power, Trump has a different view, borne of his experience in the business world. “You can compete with other countries without having to destroy them or take them over,” said a source of Trump’s idea. “You talk and work to find common ground and see what can be done in collaboration with each other. And you establish rules for this, as you go along. He has learned that it does not work if you see the world as if ‘I win, you must lose.’ He essentially agrees with the stated approach of President Xi [Jinping] of China—why can’t it be ‘win-win’? If this can be done at the superpower level, then the whole world wins.”

“Like I said,” the source continued, “Not everyone agrees with the President’s approach here. Some people, like Secretary of State [Marco] Rubio, are consumed with hatred for Russia. But Trump sees these views as ideological and he hates ideology, because it means things can never change.”

FDR’s ‘Four Policemen’ and Trump’s Strategic Vision

The source said that Trump was given some papers about how President Franklin Roosevelt wanted to create a stable peace following World War II. “FDR had this idea of both the United Nations and also something he called the Four Policemen—the United States, Russia, China and Great Britain, which still had its vast empire—as cooperating to secure the peace,” said the source. “Trump surprisingly found himself in agreement with FDR on this. It never was allowed to happen because FDR died before the war ended. And the British never agreed with it, so you went back to the U.S. and the Brits vs the ‘commies.’

“That post-war order—stop the commies from taking over—still infects the minds of the Europeans and people like Rubio,” the source continued. “Trump wants to go somewhere different. That is why he places such value in summits with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and Xi. He realizes that those leaders and himself need to build this new order of peace and stability. And he is going to have to fight the Europeans on this, especially the Brits, who appear to want a war with Russia. Trump will not go there—NATO Article 5 notwithstanding. Now is the time for something completely different if there is to be peace in the world.”

The source was pretty sure that enemies of Trump leaked the document to Defense One to scare people about Trump’s ideas for a post-Ukraine world order. “And believe me, it did produce a freakout,” said the source, “but it also gave many people around the world who are following the fights inside of the administration and with Europe, hope.”