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The imperialist vision behind the new US National Security Strategy
It goes beyond transactionalism and sees a world in which smaller nations are told what to do by bigger powers, and the US sits at the apex of the entire structure.
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US President Donald Trump at a ceremony honouring veterans in November, at a time when US national security is focused on America First.
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Things that arrive in the dead of night, unexpected and unsolicited, seldom contain good news. That’s exactly what happened with the United States’ National Security Strategy
The NSS is relatively brief: a total of 29 pages, listing point-by-point how President Donald Trump’s administration intends to shape the world according to its headline goal of “Make America Great Again”.
