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Trump's new National Security Strategy, which dropped last night, is hostile to Europe [View all]
The Trump administration released its latest National Security Strategy--and one thing that can be said is that there is no more pretending. It’s a plan to weaken European unity, to make Europe MAGA, to force Europe to take economic dictation by the USA…. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
— Phillips OBrien (@phillipspobrien.bsky.social) 2025-12-05T10:08:56.988Z
…and to rehabilitate Russia.
— Phillips OBrien (@phillipspobrien.bsky.social) 2025-12-05T10:08:56.989Z
I put together this free piece--and the points are striking. This part of the long con is over. Here are the main US positions.
https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-new-us-national-security-strategy
Comment from Anne Applebaum:
The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.
— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum.bsky.social) 2025-12-05T12:17:32.547Z
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