Hard to forgive that failure

6/Expect more attacks on the EU's legitimacy and more uncertainty in the transatlantic relationship. It is all there in the US National Security Strategy.
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Thank you. I might go even further: in this document, liberal Europe is the main enemy and the internet the crucial battleground.

the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality

@shashj.bsky.social is taking this seriously

20. Final thoughts. Do these bureaucratic documents matter? Yes. They set direction for USG. Trump 1 NSS focused on great power competition, Trump 2 on race, Western Hemisphere and ideology.

19. Mideast "dropping America’s misguided experiment with hectoring these
nations—especially the Gulf monarchies—into abandoning their traditions and historic forms of government. We should encourage and applaud reform when and where it emerges organically, without trying to impose it from without."

Followed by a straight Russian talking point: "Ending the perception, and preventing the reality, of NATO as a perpetually
expanding alliance"

...or their alliance with the
United States, in the same way as those who signed the NATO charter." Or, crudely, can non-white majority countries be trusted as allies?

But perhaps even more deliberately shocking is: "Over the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades at the latest, certain NATO members will become majority non-European. As such, it is an open
question whether they will view their place in the world...

The pull quote that will define the NSS in Europe: "America encourages its political allies in Europe to promote
this revival of spirit, and the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed
gives cause for great optimism."

@moreincommonuk.bsky.social data www.moreincommon.com/internationa... does not support this assertion: "A large European majority wants peace, yet that desire is not translated into policy, in large measure because of those governments’ subversion of democratic processes."

Treading on German toes here: "Today, German chemical companies are building some of the world’s largest processing plants in China, using Russian gas that they cannot obtain at home."

"We want Europe to
remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence, and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation."

AfD level rhetoric: EU policies "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."

18. Europe section (from page 25) has got the headlines, reasonably enough, as that has the most spectacular MAGA bombthrowing:
Europe faces the "real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure. "

17. Taiwan and South China Sea sections more conventional though with pressure on neighbours (Japan?) to do more and a push to raise the USN budget

Indeed!