This is what happens when you recruit your terror cell on Insta. It might sound like good content for influencer vibes, but your 100,000 percent going to prison.

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There's no justification for killing smugglers. Period.

In actual conclusion, the strategy lacks all of these (and any real strategy) because the administration has bought into its own propaganda and mission accomplished narratives.

They don't need contingencies because they believe they've already won.

2026 is gonna be a wild ride.

The same can be said for humanitarian challenges, such aS global health, food security, and humanitarian aid.

This is also intentional, as those problems lie outside our borders—for now. Pandemics don't adhere to idealist views of national sovereignty.

Notably, the strategy also lacks clearly delineated sections identifying ongoing threats, such as terrorism, proliferation, even transnational organized crime, such as drug trafficking.

This is largely because the narrative demands these problems be viewed as solved, and thus inconsequential.

Conclusion/Outlook/Forward Leaning Assessment:

Just kidding. There isn't one. For the first time in decades the document lacks any sort of closing charge.

It's fitting for a chaotic administration that has consistently purged competence and ruled by social media posts.

And in true American fashion, we've given the entire African continent three paragraphs on the last page, where we remind everyone we shuttered USAID. Now the goal is purely to find some natural resource worth exploiting.

Apparently, the Gulf monarchies have full control of the whole violent salafi jihadi radicalization problem now, so we can ease up.

In fairness, we're now exporting right wing extremist ideology way faster than ISIS or al-Qa'eda could ever imagine, so... It's a good thing we're not hypocrites.

Middle East: Mission Accomplished

Don't believe the headlines, Trump and Israel "significantly degraded" Iran's nuclear program, which sounds less impressive than "obliterated."

HAMAS's chief backers (again, Iran, right?) are weak.

Syria has al-Qa'eda leadership now, so they're probably fine.

"Promoting European Greatness"

Apparently we want Europe to stay European, which feels like a euphemism for white.

There's light discussion of the Ukraine conflict and Chinese trade, but it feels like the early stages of a breakup and we're just not that into them anymore.

The writer says the quiet part, and blames "Trump's insistence on increased burden sharing from Japan and South Korea" for their need to increase spending.

Awkward... When an NSC deputy is fired shortly, we'll all know they're a terrible writer.

It wanders into the South China Sea discussion like a lost fisherman before demanding Taiwan and Australia pay their fair share for the US's right to freely navigate the shipping lanes, which is the only apparent reason it's mentioned.