Trump’s newly published National Security Strategy reads less like a plan for global stability than a roadmap for willful disorder. Rather than strengthening alliances, the strategy reduces global security to transactional leverage, abandons Europe to Russian pressure, and forces the EU to reckon with defending itself without Washington.
iPINIONS explains why Europe is now being forced to rearm and defend itself.

Read my full take on Substack:
https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/trumps-national-security-strategy
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