‘Multipolar world finally emerges’: Trump’s ‘National Security Strategy’ sparks online buzz

Social media erupted with debate over US President Donald Trump’s newly released national security strategy, a 33-page roadmap that many users say marks Washington’s clearest acknowledgment yet that a "multipolar world" has arrived.

The strategy calls for US dominance in the Western Hemisphere, urges “cultivating resistance” within Europe, and seeks to reestablish “strategic stability” with Russia.

Reactions poured across social media platform X, with many users describing the document as a formal acknowledgment of a shifting global order.

Green politician and diplomat Erik Solheim wrote that “the multipolar world has finally emerged.”

Solheim argued that the strategy signals the first official US admission that Washington “can no longer run the world.” He said the rest of the world must “shape the new world order.

Others warned that the document represents a dramatic rupture with Europe as it takes an unprecedentedly confrontational posture toward the European Union.

European analyst Gerald Knaus called Trump’s strategy “a direct threat to European democracy and peace.” He believes it aims to empower far‑right forces to weaken the European Union and undermine NATO from within.

Professor Glenn Diesen said that the strategy explicitly commits to “cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory,” asking whether “regime change is coming to Europe.”

Irish journalist Chay Bowes said the document makes Trump’s long‑standing disdain for Europe “official.”

He said through the strategy, Washington pressures European capitals to assume full defense responsibility while accusing NATO governments of suppressing freedoms.

Some commentators linked the strategy to broader US military realignments, including recent operations in the Caribbean. X user Geiger Capital said the policy reflects a shift toward prioritizing the US homeland and the Western Hemisphere over competition with China. He said those who are still in denial need to know that “we are now in a multipolar world.”

Another X user, World at War, said the document marks a sharp break from the 2022 Biden‑era strategy, which emphasized multilateralism and collective defense.

Critics warn that Trump’s new approach, which focuses on border security, reindustrialization, and reducing global commitments, could erode NATO, a transatlantic alliance of 32 North American and European countries.

Not all reactions focused on geopolitics, though. Filmmaker Rogue Kite said Trump's strategy reflects decades of US policies shaped by intelligence agencies and corporate interests. She said the US foreign policy remains driven by an “imperialist oligarchy.”

“The US has come to power by spreading a political structure that makes doing the bidding of those with the most money inevitable and unstoppable,” she said, adding that the entire system runs on graft, theft, and collaboration with criminal elements.

As global debate intensifies, analysts say the new national security strategy may mark the most dramatic reorientation of US foreign policy in a generation, one that politicians see as the clearest sign yet of an emerging multipolar world.

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