Last week, the Biden White House released its long-awaited National Security Strategy to frame and guide US foreign policy. Trump’s America First sloganeering was gone, and a greater nod was given to shared global challenges. But even the most die-hard Democrat will admit that the 2022 version reinforces key foreign judgments made by the previous administration.

In particular, the new strategy offers the assessment that the most pressing strategic challenge is from states that combine authoritarian government with a revisionist and aggressive foreign policy.