The EU thread

[Zoupa]

European priorities for Trump's new National Security Strategy:



The highlighted part is crazy but the last point is taking the cake.

[The Brain]

The second point is encouraging, they want Europe to stand up to the US.

[Admiral Yi]

The last two struck me. No NATO for Ukraine (and Georgia and Rumania)? Managed economic stagnation a la Japan?

[Zoupa]

The whole document is absolutely insane    It's the love child of Peter Thiel, that Curtis Yarvin crazy dude, JD Vance and Stephen Miller.

It's cute how powerful they think the US is.

You can read it here:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf

[Admiral Yi]

Ah, I thought it was written by Europe 

[Zoupa]

 

[The Minsky Moment]

The second point is encouraging, they want Europe to stand up to the US.

Not surprising since the Russians presumably wrote the first draft.  The editor fixed point 4 to refer to the US rather than Russian gas, but the rest seems to have carried over intact.

[PJL]

At this rate, Trump will get the Charlemagne prize for helping Europe unite against a common foe...