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[conuly]

The Trump administration’s NSS announces a dramatic reworking of the foreign policy the U.S. has embraced since World War II.

And that's not the most alarming thing about it.

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[ionelv]

I have read many commentaries on his NSS and I will be one of few dissenting voices and find some good in it: America has long been overstretched militarily and it has been draining its resources in maintaining an illusion it has itself created in the first place and that is that it cares about world democracy (which it does not unless it is good cover for furthering its own economic interests). The mask is finally off and America will be even more sanguine about its military deployments. It badly needs to or China will eat it for breakfast within 10 years. Europe has been warned repeatedly since Nixon that it needs to pick up the slack (within a zombie NATO) which it largely ignored until now (with one notable exception: UK). Wake up world!

[conuly]

Yeah, the US should never have been allowed to form a military that massively dwarfs any other two or three you care to mention.

[ionelv]

Except that the "allowed" part is non-enforceable either by Americans or others :(