Kori Schake

Shame.

Do we have to read this again? Wait a minute it says a lot of things in here about coordination with allies and mutual relationships and that we don't own everything in this space but according to the NSS, whatevs.

Ten Jolting Takeaways from Trump’s New National Security Strategy The new National Security Strategy is out, and it’s a shock to the system. It is not just the latest public articulation of principles, ambitions, and

"a manifesto for a radically different American project. It is narrower, more partisan, more inwardly focused, and more personalized than any of its predecessors.”

Atlas Wept In the 2025 NSS, the War for America's China Policy Rages On

Ryan Fedasiuk on NSS contradictions

"belief that the US can simultaneously deter China militarily while growing its economy through managed trade [with China] is precisely what both economic nationalists and hard-power competitors reject as dangerous fantasy"

www.choosingvictory.com/p/atlas-wept

Confidential Conference on Ukraine Peace: "We Must Not Leave Ukraine and Volodymyr Alone with These Guys" DER SPIEGEL has obtained notes from a conference call involving EU leaders - including Germany's Friedrich Merz and France's Emmanuel Macron - showing just how little trust Europe has in Washington.

"They are playing games with both you and us"

www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Wednesday at 1200 Eastern, @risabrooks12.bsky.social is worth watching on the politicization of militaries

Europe Needs A New Strategy Too The new US National Security Strategy helps - or forces - European leaders to let go of the consuming transatlantic crisis management efforts and to focus on an own strategy instead.

The new US National Security Strategy, in its predictable and characteristic ugliness, is a good occasion for Europe to finally let go of the time-consuming transatlantic crisis management efforts and start focusing on a proper and proactive own strategy instead.

Beware the Europe You Wish For The downsides and dangers of allied independence.

Celeste Wallander examines the forces driving the United States and Europe apart—and argues that if Washington can preserve the transatlantic alliance, “it will have an advantage not available to China or Russia in a multipolar world.”

China’s Growth Is Coming at the Rest of the World’s Expense China is swallowing up a growing share of the world’s market for manufactured goods, revealing an uncomfortable truth: Beijing is pursuing a “beggar thy neighbor” growth model at everyone else’s expen...

"Pop quiz. Who has contributed more to the rest of the world’s growth this year: China or the United States?

The answer is the U.S., and it isn’t even close."
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

Opinion | Hegseth’s Order and the Admiral Adm. Bradley says he received no ‘kill them all order’ over a drug boat.

"The buck for the strike and its consequences rests with Secretary Hegseth and President Trump, and standing by Adm. Bradley means producing a factual record for Congress and the public to inspect”

Opinion | What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes

“Military training is about character formation, with virtues taught alongside tactics. But barbaric behavior tarnishes all who wear, or once wore, the uniform, and lust for cruelty turns a noble vocation into mere thuggery.”
@philklay.bsky.social is such an important moral voice.

Hands Reaching Up From Hell, Wat Rong Khun Temple, by Chalermchai Kositpipat, 1997

Also, the national security strategy makes working with western hemisphere leaders our top diplomatic priority — so just as in the first term, the strategy is not controlling policy choices.

Anybody know how DOD is justifying participation in this given their proscription against any support for think tanks? It’s be great if a journo present asked 😈

Image shows four copies of the new book The Code of the Warrior, by Shannon E French, third edition, out with Bloomsbury press (2025). The cover is gold with white and black lettering, and has pictures of a battle axe, a katana, an assegai, and an assault rifle. The books are propped up on a dark green velvet couch.

Shameless self promotion, but hopefully forgivable, given the moment we’re in right now. Military ethics is under grave threat. SecDef Hegseth is perverting the “warrior ethos” and putting the mental, moral, and spiritual health of all U.S. service members in jeopardy.

Herman Melville answers your second hypothetical in chapter 89 of Moby Dick, @peterlucier.bsky.social

I think I would probably care a lot more about the National Security Strategy if we had an administration that actually cared about acting in line with their own stated policies

ICYMI: My latest, on how Big Tech has gone from Big Hope to a combination of Big Oil and Big Tobacco… and why that damages American soft power in the world.

I think it’s funny they dropped it at like 10:00 on a Thursday night, shows how much they care (they don’t)

Excellent thread

Things this NSS is not: conservative, Republican, strategic, reality-based, credible, American.

Opinion | What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes

“The entire place seethed with the most monstrous delight in the cruelty."

Imbibing madness, and lust for domination. The coliseum and Lincoln's Second Inaugural. @philklay.bsky.social on Augustine, boat strikes.

No one has the words quite like Phil. Gift link.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...

A truly sinister document.

The Trump National Security Strategy is an act of vandalism against the things that actually make our country strong, safe, and prosperous.

But this economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure. The larger issues facing Europe include activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence. Should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less. As such, it is far from obvious whether certain European countries will have economies and militaries strong enough to remain reliable allies. Many of these nations are currently doubling down on their present path. We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence, and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation

US national security strategy.
Something sure is unrecognisable here, but it’s not Europe.

www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Donald Trump may soon discover that he needs allies, after all. But he may not realise it until a big crisis emerges. Will America’s friends still help him, after being mistreated? econ.st/4pcAAP2

Photo: Graeme Sloan/CNP/Zuma/Eyevine

What a pack of fools we are. We threaten them, making it clear that we may not be a reliable ally. Then we get angry that they - quite understandably - don't want to rely on us as they rearm.

Duh.

ICE Arrest Data Shows Many Immigrants With No Criminal Record In high-profile operations, more than half of those arrested had no criminal record, an analysis shows.

You knew it, right? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Ah, thank you for clearing that up, @bikenwhisky.bsky.social

so again I'll just say that congresspeople or whoever is going with the line that it's fine to kill people in the water after their ship is sunk would 100%, without a doubt, be singing a different tune if these were u.s. navy sailors in the water