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U.S.NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY

14-12-2025

This document published in November 25 must be studied carefully and dispationately. It is important to understand the thinking and approach of Donald Trump.

The Document is self-congratulating  and revengefull. It rejects the whole post Second World War Order - largely shaped by his predecessors - from   President Roosevelt to President Biden. The revengefull rejection, nevertheless,has a point: that post-war order has in fact disappeared with Putin's aggression against Ukraine and Europe. The order was built on law and on the Security Council in which the five victorious states of the Second World War have the right of veto in decisions on war and peace. 

Trump's own  "new" strategy consists of two main chapters: (1)to make peace through deal-making and economic growth, and (2) to restore full national sovereignty. The first one most likely is an illusion: self-enrichment ( the dominance of economc values) never proved to be a peace-maker. The restoration  of full national sovereignty in the case of the U.S. means  American imperialism:that is power without principle (e.g. the revival of the Monroe doctrine)'.

"Promoting European Greatness"  is part of his new strategy. What the Document writes on Europe's deeper problems points at least to one crucial item: the European Union failed to become a true federation capable of being united  in foreign policy and defence; the European Defence Community was rejected as early as in 1954, in the name of the  national security policy of the French Republic. Ever since, European Unification got stuck in economics and the regulatory suffocation of the so-called internal market. There is no true European Union to  deal with the problems of aggresion and war, despite its achievement as a peace-maker among the member-states. 

Still, Pope Leo rightly urged Trump not to break apart the transatlantic partnership. There is a greater truth than Trump's  anti-European revenge is showing. There will be no peace in Europe without including the Europeans in the current negotiations.

 

 

 




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