Trump's new National Security Strategy, which dropped last night, is hostile to Europe

[highplainsdem]

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.
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.

— Phillips OBrien (@phillipspobrien.bsky.social) 2025-12-05T10:08:56.989Z

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

[peppertree]

1. Small wonder. Repugs have been working to undermine the EU from day one

Putin wasn't the only one pulling for Brexit.

And not only over policy differences - but because they see the euro as the currency most likely to replace the dollar as the world's reserve currency.

(something which, in their rank stupidity, they're doing everything possible to bring about)

[gab13by13]

3. Putin hopes that the BRIC countries

will come up with a basket currency that will replace the dollar.

Krasnov's attacks on Jerome Powell to lower interest rates are designed to crash the dollar.

Krasnov and his crooked billionaire pals want the dollar to back cyber-currencies, what can go wrong?

[peppertree]

5. They can hope all they like - but if the dollar is ever dropped en masse, it'll be for the euro

Russian kleptocrats will be the first to do so - regardless of what Putin (or his successor) orders them to do.

U.S. neocons have known this for decades - and, ironically, in Trump they've got their biggest problem ever in that regard.

Play stupid games; win stupid prizes.

[gab13by13]

2. He will also support Russia in its war against Ukraine.

[karynnj]

4. Wow. Just as the Nazis came to power via election, so did this version of fascism

In retrospect, it might be there was a slow consolidation of power made possible by getting enough Supreme Court Justices and gerrymandering an undeserved majority in both many states and the House of Representatives.

This may come down to whether there are enough Republicans that don't want this.

[DSandra]

6. Putin is Sauron and Russia is Mordor

And part of the objective is to spread minority crushing conservatism around the world.

[Emrys]

7. Well, good luck with all that.

Trump's standing in most of Europe is about level with that of his rancid poop, European countries are already turning away from buying arms from US suppliers because he's proven so unreliable and untrustworthy, he's making good headway in running the US economy into the ground, and if he wants to end up rendering US influence in Europe irrelevant except as a marginal annoyance, this plan is the way to go.

As for NATO, an alliance without the burden of Trump's current unpredictable incarnation of the US would only end up being stronger.