"Donald Trump's new National Security Strategy reveals an administration that is preparing for the wrong dangers and in denial about genuine threats. What the White House presented on Friday as a hardheaded, realistic assessment of the geopolitical landscape more closely resembles France's Maginot Line-a massive fortress built before World War II to stop a German attack that never came while failing to anticipate the one that did. The document is remarkably different from the one the president issued in his first term."
"Trump's latest NSS is a blunt repudiation of the idea-widely shared among Republicans and Democrats-that the United States is in a strategic competition with rival powers. It prioritizes threats from the Western Hemisphere, European civilizational decline and overregulation, and trade deficits but says nothing about the Russian threat to U.S. interests and views China almost entirely through the lens of economic security."
The National Security Strategy redirects U.S. priorities away from great-power competition toward concerns like the Western Hemisphere, European civilizational decline, overregulation, and trade deficits. The document minimizes or omits recognition of the Russian threat and frames China chiefly as an economic security issue rather than a competitor seeking to reshape the international order. The strategy expresses hope for a mutually advantageous economic relationship with Beijing while abandoning the bipartisan focus on strategic competition. The approach signals a significant departure from earlier NSS documents that centered competition with China and Russia as core national-security challenges.
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