The Department of State released a video this Saturday featuring statements from President Donald Trump summarizing his foreign policy doctrine.
"Under President Trump, the United States is once again fighting and competing for just one thing: we fight to win," says the text accompanying the post.
Trump delivered the speech at the FII PRIORITY Miami summit (Future Investment Initiative), held at the Faena Hotel in Miami Beach, where he participated for the second consecutive year in this forum.
"We fight for justice, and we fight to win. We do not fight to be politically correct, as we did under other presidents, where we just kept fighting, fighting, fighting," Trump stated at the event.
The Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who participated alongside Trump at the summit, has made this doctrine the cornerstone of his leadership at the so-called "Department of War."
In March 2026, Hegseth summarized it this way: "No stupid rules of engagement, no nation-building quagmires, no politically correct wars. We fight to win and do not waste time or lives".
This philosophy was formalized in the National Defense Strategy 2026 of the Pentagon, subtitled "Restoring Peace through Strength for a New Golden Age of the United States," which prioritizes Latin America as a strategic focus for the first time in decades under the so-called "Donroe Doctrine," a reinterpretation of the Monroe Doctrine aimed at countering the influence of China, Russia, and Iran in the hemisphere.
At the same event in Miami, Trump announced progress following the Epic Fury Operation against Iran, claiming that the country "is begging for a deal" and that the United States is "closer than ever to the rise of a Middle East free from Iranian terror."
In the Latin American context, the doctrine has materialized in concrete actions: the capture of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela in January 2026 and a strategy of economic pressure on Cuba that includes a blockade on oil destined for the Cuban regime.
About Cuba, Trump was direct at the Miami summit: "Cuba is next", referring to his regime change agenda on the island.
The president had stated weeks earlier: "First Iran, then Cuba", setting his priorities in foreign policy.
The Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is negotiating with Cuba behind the scenes, has supported the hardline stance: "Its system of government must change", he declared in March 2026.
Trump's doctrine is not free from criticism within the United States. According to a AP-NORC survey from January 2026, 61% of Americans disapprove of the president's foreign policy and 56% believe that he "has gone too far" with military interventions.
For Cuba, the scenario painted by Washington is one of increasing pressure. The Cuban GDP has fallen by 23% since 2019, with projections of an additional decline of 7.2% in 2026, figures that the Trump administration cites to justify its strategy of economic suffocation of the regime.
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