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Friday, December 05, 2025

"America Alone" is a 33-page screed filled with grievances that rejects European allies, conceding the US must share global hegemony with China, all while searching for new allies in the Western Hemisphere.

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This is why Trump's National Security Strategy is a fantasy.

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-- emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) Dec 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM

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Note that the US already signaled earlier this year they won't be participating in NATO military exercises in 2026, so Europe, the EU, and Canada will be on their own if a conflict arises with Russia in the near future.

Some takeaways of the screed which reads like 'word salad' at times:

  • "The days of the United States propping up the entire world order like Atlas are over."
  • "It is more than plausible that within a few decades at the latest, certain NATO members will become majority non-European "and will be "unrecognizable in 20 years or less." (Meaning less white).
  • "Conflict remains the Middle East's most troublesome dynamic."
  • "The Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains thorny."
  • Africa is only good for its resources ("critical minerals").


  • #1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-05 03:17 PM | Reply

    That the staff reflects the prez is a given, so this mob is a pretty lowlife crew of ignorami.
    Sadly, the US itself seems to have embarked on a course whereby it mimics the behavior of its sociopathic, senescent president

    #2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-05 03:44 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

    Everything Trump and his coconspitators have done this past year has been done to further the agenda of surrendering America's future. They are trying to break the country. The xenophobia, the targeting of universities, the brain drain, the trade wars, the persecution of immigrants and foreign tourists, the massive debt, and the destruction of the economy. It's all to make us weaker and cedes American influence and our future goals to our adversaries.

    #3 | Posted by qcp at 2025-12-05 03:59 PM | Reply

    Concur with all above.

    And even the mafia, real and fictional, had some standards to maintain, like the assassins whacking real life Tommy DeSimone (played by Joe Pesci in Goodfellas) for his infamias.

    The tumorous Trumpf junta has no standards; they are just a bottomless pit of depravity beneath the ninth circle of Dante's Inferno.

    See for yourself: upload.wikimedia.org

    #4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-05 04:29 PM | Reply

    This is 'National Security', too, don't 'cha know:

    "State Department to deny visas to fact checkers

    "If you uncover evidence an applicant was responsible for, or complicit in, censorship or attempted censorship of protected expression in the United St

    It refers to a policy announced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio in May restricting visas from being issued to "foreign officials and persons who are complicit in censoring Americans."

    www.npr.org

    Facts are anathema to the Trump Security State.

    #5 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-05 09:26 PM | Reply

    No need to issue a National Security Strategy-we watch "American Alone" on the news every day.

    #6 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2025-12-06 10:43 AM | Reply

    Kissing Putin's ass isn't a strategy.

    #7 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-06 11:07 AM | Reply

    Making America Great Again. Like in the 1970s.

    Arresting and discrediting activists, using false evidence, and engaging in illegal break-ins. These actions were conducted under the broad umbrella of national security and were uncovered by the Church Committee in the 1970s.

    #8 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-06 11:13 AM | Reply

    Here's something you probably don't know but can take to the bank. Even the MAGAts know Trump is a piece of shit. They know he's a drooling mess. Their favorite phrase "best president ever" is for pissing off libs. They don't believe it for a second.

    #9 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-12-06 11:22 AM | Reply

    Most Republicans don't know what the post war hegemony is to begin with, or how it propelled the United States to the apex of the global economy.

    #10 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-06 11:37 AM | Reply

    Through this rambling unprofessional screed, Dummkopf Trumpf has telegraphed and codified what many of us already know: Europe and Canada are on their own against Russia in 2026, the US won't be helping Taiwan in the near future, and Trumpf is seeking allies in Latin and South America who are rightwing authoritarians, like Libertarian loser Javier Milei in Argentina or reactionary Nayib Armando Bukele of El Salvador.

    Trumpf failed at rescuing fellow fascist rain forest-destroying Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil from prison. Shucks.



    #11 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-06 11:53 AM | Reply

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