According to reporting by Defense One, there exists a longer, classified version of the US’ National Security Strategy that goes beyond the publicly released version. This document reportedly proposes creating a new global governance body, called the “Core 5” or C5, consisting of the US, China, Russia, India, and Japan.
The main points in the longer version include: competition with China, a withdrawal from Europe’s defense, and a new focus on the Western Hemisphere. What was determined to be first on C5’s proposed agenda is the normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
The classified NSS also emphasizes a strategic pivot away from Europe, treating the continent as largely irrelevant to US interests. It focuses on partnering with like-minded regional powers while acknowledging that permanent American hegemony is unachievable.
According to Defense One, the longer version of NSS also proposes to focus U.S. relationships with European countries on a few nations with like-minded… administrations and movements. Austria, Hungary, Italy, and Poland are listed as countries the U.S. should “work more with…with the goal of pulling them away from the European Union.
NSS explicitly details the “failure” of US global domination, describing it as “the wrong thing to want and it wasn’t achievable."
https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/12/make-europe-great-again-and-more-longer-version-national-security-strategy/410038/?oref=d1-homepage-top-story
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Yes, this absolutely should be taken with a serious degree of alarm in European capitals, and I don’t see the point of those who claim they shouldn’t take it seriously. Rather than alarm, this should be taken as a signal of what it fundamentally is – an abdication of this administration from the transatlantic partnership and its deep appetite for accommodating and promoting violent illiberal autocracies as the world’s new leaders. The European Union is almost literally depicted as an enemy at whose dissolution the US will now aim. The bones thrown to what the regime thinks of as “sympathetic” governments in Italy, Poland, Austria, Hungary (read that as Austria-Hungary at first glance), etc., are intended simply as additional interrupters tossed into the EU’s complicated decision making mechanism, and not expressions of a genuine desire for partnership or alliance. The administration actually shows very little appetite or understanding for real partnerships and alliances, dealing in exclusively transaction-based terms – often personally so, given how much money the Trump family has so far absorbed in various international bribes.
European Union iš like a garden in Jungle World. So it seems. And competing flora and fauna do not want to see a garden, for it is a reminder that a better place to live can exist.
Terrible terrible news, but it only reminds Europe, that it has become largely insignificant in the eyes of Trump. What is more, is that Russian GDP is similar to that of Spain. So I don’t see Russia surviving long in this set-up. Something is off here.
Whats the idea with competition with China but also bringing them into the Illuminati like structure of the Core 5? How did Trump have such an about turn when his prior rhetoric against China was so hawkish?
The EU can not stand up to this unless deeper integration takes place, and I frankly don’t see that integration happening. The U.S and other adversaries will continue to work with “like minded” countries within the EU, and the EU will be stuck due to those nations.
I have a hard time believing this is real. We wouldn’t construct a framework where we were outnumbered ideologically
This is literally the berlin conference but worldwide, and to the hemisphere monroe doctrine 2.0 but somehow worse.
If this doesnt make latam create an bloc and finally reform their inteligencies while building an nuclear detterence nothing will
This core 5 document was written by Putini and is being implemented by Don Quixote.
Not looking good faor Canada and Greenland either
The EU is already incredibly weak in terms of power projection, US withdrawal would likely lead to more federalization which would mean a more influential EU.
And don’t get me starting on thinking that Russia is going to be able to influence more than Russia in future.
The level of incompetence and lack of understanding from this administration is incredible.
Honestly at this rate I seriously doubt the EU survives to the 2030’s
“Austria, Hungary, Italy, and Poland are listed as countries the U.S. should “work more with…with the goal of pulling them away from the [European Union].”
“And we should support parties, movements, and intellectual and cultural figures who seek sovereignty and preservation/restoration of traditional European ways of life…while remaining pro-American,” the document says.”
Why tf would any of the countries except for China and Russia be stronger then for example Germany and France? Germany can also build nuclear weapons if wanted. Russia is irrelevant except for raw material and nukes, India is still dirt poor and I dont see them pulling away that strong economically and even when their rising demographic is taken in acount the same thing should exclude Japan. So wtf is this weird list, when 2 European countries can outpower all of them easily?
A brutally realistic view but it’s definitely gonna ruffle some feathers in some places.
People will hate on this because Trump or whatever but this is actually very long term smart i think. At this point US interests in Europe are not significant.
This wouldn’t be an ‘alliance’. It would be a grouping of nations that regularly meet to discuss and hash out world issues. Think of it as an updated UN Security Council. The geostrategic weight of the century is not in Europe. It is in Asia. You need a security order that reflects that.
A huge problem right now is that the security council has useless nations in it (UK, France) while leaving out highly militarized and economically large nations like India and Japan. To be very frank Indonesia has a much more legitimate claim to the table than any European nation at this point.
Anyhow, the Europeans will whine and moan but at the end of the day they’re going to turn around and pull their pants down like they always do.
Don’t see how this is really that much of a secret, like this is more or less in line with the spirit of the actual NSS and with American foreign policy for the last few months.
Trump clearly didn’t write this, and we got to keep in mind that the Trump loyalist policy guys who did weren’t around the last admin. While there’s always the chance, and a good chance of Republicans taking the next term it’s very unlikely the same policy guys stick around unless Trump magically gets another term.
While American involvement in Europe may be hostile for the immediate future it would be inconsistently hostile depending on the admin and most likely really ineffectual. We’ve seen this clown trying to influence elections in Brazil Mexico and Canada in favor of far right parties and it has generally speaking failed while burning up American soft power. Without soft power America has only hard power and economic coercion-both of which has economic and political costs in America. What America could have gone free with some patience, pressure, and nice words it now has to pay economically or militarily for.
That being said there needs to be an alternative to NATO, like by all means keep it around for diplomacy sake but the EU defense pact actually needs to get more teeth and stop being so reliant on unanimity that’s being abused by every sub-region that wants it’s own slice of cake.
In a trumpian way it echoes Obama’s pivot to Asia.
It should be treated as a serious shift by the atlanticist Europeans. If it were not for the Russian attack on Ukraine, how high would Europe be on the USA priority list?
Nuclear proliferation might be a bad thing in general terms, but if countries like Brazil, South Korea, and Germany don’t pursue it now they will see a future of only harsh submission
When your young people refuse to fight, it’s impossible to project power. That’s the real crux of this issue – is the lack of military capability and ultimately, the lack of soldiers that will prevent Europe from achieving their independent security goals. Much like Ukraine … the young don’t want war and will leave.
Europe: Obsessively hates everything to do with the US while destroying it’s own economy and national identities.
Also Europe: Wait, why doesn’t the US include us in the list of world powers!?
If Trump we’re a Russian asset, wouldn’t this be the kind of foreign policy he would promote?
In a first Trump administration nobody wants to be in it. Now everybody do want to be part of it – they want power and money. Just as simple. And those people trying to explain themselves and others what they are doing – and producing concepts, documents and staff to explain what is going on and that it all make sense. But reality is – it all just second – guess what really happening, not running things.
So much for Mahan. We’ll just stay snug in our hemisphere I guess.
>Austria, Hungary, Italy, and Poland are listed as countries the U.S. should “work more with…with the goal of pulling them away from the European Union.
Hungary and Poland, I understand, that probably aligns with Russia’s interest. But Austria and Italy ? Do they have movements that the current US admin find amicable ?
From USMA to NATO planning to its posture toward the EU it seems the U.S. has accepted that the strategic game has changed. Washington looks ready to re examine basically every assumption it used to operate under.
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