Srdja Trifkovic
“What a divine surprise!” exclaimed Charles Maurras, upon learning of Marshal Pétain’s rise to power in France in July 1940. The veteran leader of L’Action française expected the new regime to overturn the legacy of the republican, secular, masonic “anti-France” he hated with a passion.
In this hope, Maurras was disappointed: Pétain was outwitted by outright Nazi collaborationists. His turn of phrase nevertheless describes President Donald Trump’s December 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) for those who hope America can be once again a regular nation in its foreign affairs: powerful, secure, and focused on its pragmatic interests, in the realist tradition.
The president prefaced the 33-page document as “a roadmap to ensure America remains the greatest and most successful nation in human history and the home of freedom on earth.”
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