Trump's new strategy marks the unraveling of the Western alliance : Politico
December 8, 2025 5:42 pm CET
By Jamie Dettmer
“It must be a policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressure,” said former U.S. President Harry Truman during a speech to Congress in 1947. The Truman Doctrine, as this approach became known, saw the defense of democracy abroad as of vital interest to the U.S. — but that’s not a view shared by President Donald Trump and his acolytes.
If anyone had any doubts about this — or harbored any lingering hopes that Vice President JD Vance was speaking out of turn when he launched a blistering attack on Europe at the Munich Security Conference earlier this this year — then Washington’s new National Security Strategy (NSS) should settle the matter.
Fleshing out what the Trump administration means by “America First,” the new security strategy represents an emphatic break with Truman and the post-1945 order shaped by successive U.S. presidents. It is all about gaining a mercantilist advantage, and its guiding principle is might is right.
Moving forward, Trump’s foreign policy won’t be “grounded in traditional, political ideology” but guided by “what works for America.” And apparently what works for America is to go easy on autocrats, whether theocratic or secular, and to turn on traditional allies in a startling familial betrayal.
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-national-security-strategy-europe/
I continue to believe that Donnie Boy is a Russian agent, not asset. He envies those who project the appearance of power, even though it is increasingly clear that such is mostly illusory in Putin's case. Not to mention the borderline-homoerotic admiration he has for Vlad