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Post #486: The US National Security Strategy Paper Puts Europe on Edge

11 Dec 202511 Dec 2025
The Trump administration has issued a National Security Strategy (NSS) document that fundamentally transforms US relations with Europe. Traditional closeness is out; open hostility to liberal governments and alignment with…
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Post #453: America in Retreat

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An Appalling Display Imagine that during World War II, at the height of Nazi Germany’s blitz of Britain, President Roosevelt invited PM Winston Churchill to Washington and humiliated him with…

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