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December 5, 2025. Commentary on The Trump Administration Annual Update to US National Security Strategy
Trump Has Long Disdained Europe’s Elites. Now, It’s Official.
A new White House policy document formalizes President Trump’s long-held contempt for Europe’s leaders. It made clear that the continent now stands at a strategic crossroads.
Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’
America’s goal should be “to help Europe correct its current trajectory,” the administration said in its new National Security Strategy.
The Trump administration said on Friday that Europe was facing the “stark prospect of civilizational erasure” and pledged that the United States would support like-minded “patriotic” parties across the continent to prevent a future in which “certain NATO members will become majority non-European.”
The grim assessment of Europe’s future was released overnight as part of an annual update to the United States’ national security strategy around the world.
Without naming them directly, the document says the United States should be “cultivating resistance” across Europe by supporting political parties that fight against migration and promote nationalism. That describes several right-wing populist parties like Reform U.K. in Britain and the Alternative for Germany, known as the AfD, which has been classified as an extremist party by German intelligence services.
“In everything we do, we are putting America First,” Mr. Trump wrote in a foreword to the document, which he called a “road map to ensure that America remains the greatest and most successful nation in human history.”
Quest for The White House , and the Dangerously ill-informed, Histrionic, incendiary statements of
its highly unqualified, self aggrandizing -Seekers.
High Noon
A circumspect Bombshell we better pay attention to .
Wang Jisi on US China Strategic Distrust: Brookings & the Institute. for Int & Strategic Studies
April 2012
Aaron Friedberg,
in his 2001 release, "A Contest for Supremacy- China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia"
has a number of interesting and worthwhile insights concerning the relationship between America & China, a
the Great Game soon to be played out via GeoPolitical realities throughout not only Asia -but the planet at large. What's of particular interest ...and concern, and the point of this essay, is specifically to address his brilliantly myopic, narrow, ill-informed, and quite specifically -dangerous and
poignantly Unwise call for America to counter China in -Asia- by the deployment of "Hard Power".
Al Qaeda's Outsize Shadow
Scott Shane. Nyt Sept. 11, 2011
The likely overestimation of Al Qaeda's Abilities
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We're safer than we think.
Fareed Z. Time Magazine Sept 20, 2010
Response
The Inspector . Leslie Gelb on M. ElBaradei's Book- Age of Deception. Quest to stem the Atomic Tide.
WsJ May 8, 2011
Response
Essay.
The World America Made -Robert Kagan
Book Review
Essay
How Obama is profiting from a Romney adviser's theory about American power.
Time Magazine Feb 13, 2012
Response
Qadaffi's Never Never Land
Nyt Magazine 2011. Robert Worth
Response.
-You think you know Someone.
Islam Needs Reformists, Not Moderates
WsJ Irshad Manji From Allah, Liberty, & Love- June 2011
Respond*
How to Halt the Butchery in Syria
NyTimes February 24, 2012
Anne Marie Slaughter
Response.
Letter Between Friends:
The Afghanistan/Pakistan Problem and the Bull-Crap Loop.
The Afghan Problem. May , 2010.
Speaking truth to Fantasy.
Is there an EndGame to the Iraq/ Iran/Pakistan/Afghan Dilemma?
Essay.
Yemen strike indicative of U.S. Shift to the use of Drones as Cost effective War Tools
-Nyt October 2, 2011
Ron Steele: June 1995 Atlantic Monthly: The Domestic Core of Foreign Policy
“Our Task is not so heroic as fighting a war but it may be just as important.
Recognizing our limits, Reject the vanity of trying to remake the world in our image,
and to restore the promise of our Neglected society.”
Response.
Deals -Devils & Democracy:
The quandary behind US policy in the Middle East and N Africa, & the US
response to the Revolt against Autocracy.
Bob Gates. A Hero for the 21st Century. February 2011.
The Shock and Awe ...poignancy of -Straight talk
Address to the Academy,
on a No Fly Zone in Libya, and the insanity of invading a Middle Eastern Country
Comment
“There is no percentage, none at all , in making or motivating enemies”
Niall Ferguson. Obama’s Egypt debacle. Newsweek 21 February 2011- A Response
An example of why specialties and experience -sometimes do make a difference.
On Niall Ferguson’s nonsense.
Essay
The Final Conflict. NYTimes Book Review. 10 December, 2010. -A Response
An Historian’s view -Why the west Rules -for now. *** ex.
Essay
The Net Delusion . Evgeny Morozov -Author. -Nyt Bk Rv. 2011
“Two decades of inane patter about the magic of the internet has made us blind to the dangers”
Response.
Virtue From a Distant Opportunist. Newsweek 7 February 2011
Manifesto for Egypt. Author Al baredi.
Response
NewsWeek 6 December 2010.
Asian Wisdom. Author - Kishore MahBubami
“The West needs a refresher course in Asian wisdom”
Response.
Reflections on the American, Western, & Global Collective Disaster -Know as 9.11
September 11, 2011 - Traverse City Michigan
A Hard look at why I wanted War
Bill Keller
Nyt- Tenth Anniversary of 9.11 /9.11.11
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Prosecuting the Peace.
WsJ Books. Book Reveiw January 7, 2012
John Woo on All the Missing Souls and Justice and the Enemy
Response
Antiwar Senator, War-Powers President.
Wsj Opinon 2011
John Woo
Response
