How does the world begin to respond to the 2025 National Security Strategy of the United States? How do we gauge the resulting shocks and disconcerting reversals of US defense of human rights and democracy?
Was it the constant war-after-war after World War II? The missed ‘peace dividend’ after the fall of the Soviet Union?
It is time to ask ‘What led to this time in history, a rise in totalitarian and autocratic regimes and now, with new intrusive technologies, an empowered authoritarian rule’?
Are we witnessing the diminishing of democracies and rise in technocracy and geopolitical shifts, a worldwide change as China and Russia charge to be out in front? And what of those security threats on the near- and approaching horizon that are existential, a resurgent nuclear arms race and local/national/global climate disruption that scientific data has, as we point to through ‘New Definitions of Security‘, brought into the light for over fifty years.
And how is the United States reacting after decades of failed wars and their deep costs with trillions in spending, displaced populations/forced migrations, roiling of markets, shifting economics, court-enabled historic money in politics, lobbying and influence peddling, and extreme cyber influences ranging from social media algorithms to foreign actors operating 24/7/365 with surveillance, monitoring and disruption capabilities that are deep threats to freedoms that are core to the working of democracies …
Now, as memorialized …
The National Security Strategy of the United States of America (November 2025)
Trump reveals what he wants for the world …
(Click through for various editorial points of view toward the new US ‘Security Strategy’)
* https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/05/trump-reveals-national-security-strategy-western-hemisphere-europe-00678265
* https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/national-security-strategy-incoherent-babble/685166/
* https://www.reuters.com/world/china/kremlin-says-new-us-security-strategy-accords-largely-with-russias-view-2025-12-07/
* https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/07/kremlin-hails-trump-national-security-strategy-as-aligned-with-russia-vision
* https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/us/politics/trump-national-security-strategy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7E8.fr98.6UZdYTrIC5yd&smid=url-share
* https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/05/national-security-strategy-2025-trump-europe-russia-ukraine-war/
* https://warontherocks.com/2025/12/ten-jolting-takeaways-from-trumps-new-national-security-strategy/
* https://time.com/7339171/trump-national-security-strategy-europe/
* https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/5/five-key-takeaways-from-trumps-national-security
* https://www.newsweek.com/russia-welcomes-donald-trumps-national-security-strategy-11170196
* https://www.dw.com/en/us-releases-national-security-strategy/video-75041435
* https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/12/06/us-national-security-strategy-targets-europe-and-spares-its-adversaries_6748213_4.html
* https://asiatimes.com/2025/12/the-trump-vance-national-security-strategy-declares-political-war/
