The fact this policy document was released literally in the dark of night bespeaks how ominous it really is. It is sinister and dangerous. But it also exposes the intentions of those closest to Trump. This is THEIR vision of a new world....or should I say New World Order: an almost Star War-ish dark vision that harkens back to the rise of the Nazi's in Germany. It even has a corporate element to it, just as the Nazi's drew the support of German industrialists.
This is why we must fight to defeat this darkness from creeping in.
Elon has used X to say ‘only AfD can save Germany’ and appeared in videos during their rallies before the last election. JD Vance lectured Europeans on a visit about not being inclusive. AfD leaders have visited the WH. Now it is the 2nd largest political party in Germany. Not too long ago it had a small lead in opinion polling. AfD has been tied to coup plots in Germany.
I suspect that the tariffs tie into this ‘support’ for dissidents.This is because when you want to destabilize countries attacking their economies is very effective & tends to spawn plots to overthrow governments.
From NBC:
“Inspiration from America?
The Reichsbürger plotters were heavily influenced by the QAnon conspiracy theory and may have taken direct inspiration from the storming of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6 2021, according to Neumann.”
The AfD is a huge cause for concern. Germany is essential to keeping Europe capable of fighting US-led fascism and the Russian assaults on European countries. Ukraine stands literally at the frontline of this battle.
"{The] mass MAGA movement with its racism and its small-property-based outlook is inherently anti-working class, even if it has attracted significant numbers of working-class voters, it also finds itself in conflict with the ultra-wealthy interests that have funded and mobilized it, making it a dangerous movement from the standpoint of monopoly capitalism itself. Once political power is achieved in regimes in the fascist genus, divisions quickly emerge between the top echelons of monopoly capital and its army of lower-middle class adherents. Having obtained control of the state and of the military and police powers, the ultra-wealthy ruling class has every reason to discard the more militant nationalist—often partially anticapitalist—elements of its “radical right” base. The classic historical instance of this was the Night of the Long Knives in Hitler’s Germany, from June 30 to July 2, 1934, in which the Nazi party’s paramilitary brownshirt wing, the Sturmabteilung, or “Assault Division,” known as its stormtroopers, were subjected to a bloody purge."
"Let us not confuse objectives with methods. Too many so-called leaders of the nation fail to see the forest because of the trees. Too many of them fail to recognize the vital necessity of planning for definite objectives. True leadership calls for the setting forth of the objectives and the rallying of public opinion in support of these objectives. Do not confuse objectives with methods. When the nation becomes substantially united in favor of planning the broad objectives of civilization, then true leadership must unite thought behind definite methods.
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach.
We need enthusiasm, imagination and the ability to face facts, even unpleasant ones, bravely. We need to correct, by drastic means if necessary, the faults in our economic system from which we now suffer. We need the courage of the young. Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you. May every one of us be granted the courage, the faith and the vision to give the best that is in us to that remaking!"
Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt Speeches: Oglethorpe University Address The New Deal May 22, 1932 https://tinyurl.com/3zsnmcwe
Yes. America must support democracy around the world. First we must kick out the fascists occupying our government. Let’s keep protesting in the streets and singing the no kings anthem together: https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/no-kings-anthem
Thank you Mr. Beschloss for this post. Yes, it will absolutely take generations to repair what has already been damaged. When an administration, as just one example, stops a program like USAID which will cost millions of lives it sends the message that we just don't care anymore about our reputation and moral standing in the world. It sickens me and we must stop this.
Clearly, the current National Security Strategy of the United States of America was written in Russia.
The document is a disgrace. It is a blueprint for the abandonment of decency and democracy in favor of greed, corruption and the exercise of power.
But where is our outrage? Why isn't this document serving to galvanize a united opposition - of former and current administrators, diplomats, politicians, scholars, writers philosophers and military personnel - to stand together as one in working to bring this sordid regime to an abrupt end?
It may be Putin’s wishlist but it is even more ominously that of Miller and Vance. The destruction of US democracy may have been started by Russian election meddling in 2016, but it has empowered fascist forces of racial hatred and violent domination that are sadly home grown. How else do we come to a moment in which at least a third of our country sees its future in terms of white supremacy and oligarchical exploitation?
We must support democracy around the world. I believe Trump is an anomaly in his zeal for total destruction of the ideals our country stands for. There are rumblings in the Republican Party even now, against his reign of error and terror. I pray that it will be more like years, not generations, to restore some kind of sanity to our nation. The world recognizes the madness Trump has wrought and will be anxious to embrace a sane leader again.
Carole, I agree and hope for everything you have said to come to pass. Hope is not just a tiny light at the bottom of Pandora’s box. It is one ofour most powerful weapons. We must speak with one voice, if we are to purge our country of this Nazi Godzilla. The repair must begin with a speedy and complete round up of Trump and every stinking member of his cabinet. As crazy as it sounds, if January 6 and its accompanying tragedies,accomplished anything at all, it got everyone’s attention. Marches and protests are effective to a point; beyond that we need to create a public spectacle of our wannabe fascist overlords publicly humiliated, then incarcerated for the rest of their rotten lives.
VOTING, for sure! (as long as are allowed to)BTW, voting machines must all be shut down and paper ballots must be used and hand-counted to prevent cheating!! No electronic shenanigans!
Almost all voters, 98%, use paper ballots. Others have a ballot receipt/paper trail verified by the voter when it prints out. Those are used to verify the vote tallies. There was no “electronic shenanigans.”
There are 2 reasons not to count all ballots by hand. One is that studies have shown the longer humans do a repetitive task like counting ballots the more errors they make. The other is it would not end distrust from those who don’t like the results. Hand counting takes a very long time. The longer it takes the more people think something “funny” is going on.
I suppose my comments were made out of a sincere wish for honesty in the voting process. It follows that honesty and dishonesty are such baked in human contradictions that the means by which they are expressed matters less than one would think. That is my way of saying you are probably right in your analysis of the voting situation. I think back to ancient times when kings reached their thrones by way of royal bloodlines, a privilege sometimes characterized by mental or physical disabilities due to inbreeding. Alternately, if there were no natural male heirs to a throne, potential leaders were required to prove themselves in battle with the victor becoming king. History changes superficially with the times but for small details its driving forces remain the same because human nature does not really change much at all. Though I cannot imagine us returning to either of those ancient practices, I must admit that I do not have any better ideas for free and fair elections. Perhaps you do?
When there is distrust people feel no one represents them. Many withdraw from the process. These day trust is no longer the norm. I’m not sure how we move away from that. For decades public employees have been denigrated. They are the ones who run the voting process. Politicians make the most of sowing doubt & a group of people make $$ pushing out theories.
In most states if not all, poll workers are trained volunteers from each party who are paid a stipend. Challengers can observe the voting and observers can be present during the vote counting. So none of it is done in secret.
I believe we need a new Voting Rights Act now that SCOTUS has torn the current one apart. It’s tricky territory because each state is empowered to run their own elections. Meanwhile we don’t have time to wait for a Constitutional Amendment but with a majority we can remove obstacles.
There some ideas about changing representation in the House to get rid of gerrymandering. One is ‘at large’ Representatives. I’m not keen on that because the idea of Districts is to have people who hare common issues choose who represents them, not the entire state. I’ve heard it paired with ranked choice voting which is interesting. Still not sure how it work out in reality. An opposite idea is smaller districts - more Representatives. The number was capped in 1929. Here we are almost 100 yrs later with many more people crammed into the same number of districts making gerrymandering a sport. Here is the raise the cap idea.
Carole, I share your hope that we can restore some sanity to our nation as soon as possible. I suspect it will take years because we definitely have some heavy constitutional lifting to do before have any real hope of avoiding a variation of this current insanity returning. Among other things, I have begun to believe our current two-party system is part of our problem.
But I don’t share your hope the world will be anxious to embrace our leader in anything like the years for saving our democracy. I think we must start fresh, repudiate our historic hubris, and earn our place among equal, and hopefully democratic, nations. If we can be a true democracy, we will be a strong bulwark among the democratic nations of the world. As an octogenarian, I don’t really expect to live to see that acceptance of our “belonging”, though I would love to be surprised!
Phil, I agree that it will require a great rebuilding of trust to earn back our reputation as any sort of beacon of freedom and democracy (however misplaced that reputation may have been at times). I’m in my 70s and still attempting to be optimistic, but I’m not sure where the arc of history is bending now…
A document like what has just been published makes me exceedingly sad - and a bit angry - because it’s not what we stand for as Americans. Maybe the Trump Oligarchy likes this, but I don’t.
This is not a strategic plan, it is a business plan, purely transactional. The messy democratic process is treated as an impediment to a good business deal. There is no profit to be gained from empathy and human values. The United States has been a beacon of democracy because we have practiced those democratic values, as messy as it is, and continue to aspire to a more perfect union...until trump. We have made mistakes when we try to assert our values on other nations - Vietnam being a key example. But if we can rid ourselves of the MAGA malignancy and continue our drive to an inclusive democracy, the innovation that freedom unleashes will again draw other nations to our democratic system.
Agreed, Stephen. Expressing the values without living them is a failing enterprise. I believe that fundamental desire for freedom can’t be extinguished once lit.
It seems to me that even with a Democrat in the White House in January 2029, it will take decades to regain the trust of allies. After all, they are well aware that, given the Electoral College, 20,000 voters in, say, Wisconsin, can cause our foreign policy to turn on a dime. Why try to build an alliance.
In addition, this document is a profound statement of weakness and insecurity rather than strength and confidence.
To answer your prompt, yes, America needs to promote democratic values around the world, and to try to do a better job of modeling those values at home.
The NSS is an affront to all democracies in the world, including our own. Much of it was lifted from Project 2025's section on the State Department. Despite the high-blown language and swagger of the NSS document, it is a pox upon our country. Assuming Trump is not long for this world, it would be a while until any successor, sadly JD Vance, would be able to implement it. I for one think that given the level of incompetence in the regime and its toadies that the tasks they outline will take more than they are capable of doing. I also think that once Trump realizes that the extent of his grabbing and grift with other free nations will be limited to the Western Hemisphere, he'll sour on the plan. Yes, there is the Middle Eastern component that seems to be the candle in the purported dark of our current policy, but if and when we hook up with China and Russia directly, there will be jealousy and strife. All of which is to say, when you destabilize the world order expect some things to not work out as planned. I firmly believe that the extent of the changes in the NSS-2025 will be 1) fought like hell by the soon coming Democratic Congress; and 2) be bungled in its implementation. I also believe that there will be a Democrat president in 2028 and that mostly all of the policies, dictums and disgraces of the regime will be disavowed, torn down, literally, and the rest of the regime scattered to their think tank holes. It is the job of the resistance to begin now to decry the NSS policies, to make clear we are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore, and that the next decade or two will be ours to rescue what we can of our relationships with our current allies, adding more of them, and assuring the world that the Trump regime was a historical aberration and that we will never return to it. The elections in 2026 will mark the beginning of the end of the regime. I think if you told the American people--all of them, especially MAGA--that the United States would no longer be the leader of the free world but a crony to despots, they'd rise up, refute and disable the NSS. It's the only patriotic thing we can do and it's time we agreed that for all its anger and bluster, MAGA sees itself as patriots. We must help them see the stakes ahead. It's our job as keepers of the flame of liberty.
I am more than concerned with this paradigm shift in foreign policy. The business and profit undertones are apparent but swing voters failed to research the man and MAGA and voted with their emotions. And here we are. I will not live long enough to see this restored to “the old days”
I am especially concerned with the impact that this will have on Canada as they excel their efforts to wean any dependence upon the US. Unfortunately, cross border industry is hostage to the uncertainties of the Trump administration. The Canadians, not so. PM Carney is demonstrating his acumen and repositioning Canada to thrive.
Trump’s neofascist regime is a desperate act of a declining empire. It has supplanted neoliberalism only in the sense that the right wing of the ruling class itself is now in direct and open command of the state, seeking to restructure it as a vehicle of resurgent hegemony. The conflict between neofascism as a more regressive global capitalist project designed to preserve and enhance the power of the ruling capitalists with their global interests, on the one hand, and the national-populist movement of the MAGA radical right focused primarily on the conquest of the administrative state, on the other, means that the mega-capitalist interests will continually betray the MAGA “populist” base, viewed as mere cannon fodder in the Cold Civil War. [pp. 18-19]
Thank you, Dalton D. S.. I think the entire article is worth reading. My historical understanding increased, as it seems yours did. I encourage those wishing to become more informed to browse or read more than just the snippet quoted. The author presents data, history, context and identifiable patterns. JMHO 🙏 KH
with all these codes it is so annoying to try to comment, but I have persevered.
This NSS document is a travesty and a repudiation of all of our deeply held beliefs. If allowed to stand, we will be finished as a world power and influencer for democracy forever. It saddened AND angers me.
THIS CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO STAND!!! Trump and his merry of traitors and idiots need to be gone.
The fact this policy document was released literally in the dark of night bespeaks how ominous it really is. It is sinister and dangerous. But it also exposes the intentions of those closest to Trump. This is THEIR vision of a new world....or should I say New World Order: an almost Star War-ish dark vision that harkens back to the rise of the Nazi's in Germany. It even has a corporate element to it, just as the Nazi's drew the support of German industrialists.
This is why we must fight to defeat this darkness from creeping in.
And they openly support nazi aligned parties like AfD. Bannon went to Europe to set up training schools but ran into legal problems and was pushed back to the US before he made much progress. That’s not to say others aren’t carrying it forward after a favorable court ruling. https://www.politico.eu/article/steve-bannon-rome-right-wing-gladiator-school-populist-nationalists/
Elon has used X to say ‘only AfD can save Germany’ and appeared in videos during their rallies before the last election. JD Vance lectured Europeans on a visit about not being inclusive. AfD leaders have visited the WH. Now it is the 2nd largest political party in Germany. Not too long ago it had a small lead in opinion polling. AfD has been tied to coup plots in Germany.
I suspect that the tariffs tie into this ‘support’ for dissidents.This is because when you want to destabilize countries attacking their economies is very effective & tends to spawn plots to overthrow governments.
From NBC:
“Inspiration from America?
The Reichsbürger plotters were heavily influenced by the QAnon conspiracy theory and may have taken direct inspiration from the storming of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6 2021, according to Neumann.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/reichsburger-coup-plot-afd-germany-far-right-fears-rcna97742
The AfD is a huge cause for concern. Germany is essential to keeping Europe capable of fighting US-led fascism and the Russian assaults on European countries. Ukraine stands literally at the frontline of this battle.
"{The] mass MAGA movement with its racism and its small-property-based outlook is inherently anti-working class, even if it has attracted significant numbers of working-class voters, it also finds itself in conflict with the ultra-wealthy interests that have funded and mobilized it, making it a dangerous movement from the standpoint of monopoly capitalism itself. Once political power is achieved in regimes in the fascist genus, divisions quickly emerge between the top echelons of monopoly capital and its army of lower-middle class adherents. Having obtained control of the state and of the military and police powers, the ultra-wealthy ruling class has every reason to discard the more militant nationalist—often partially anticapitalist—elements of its “radical right” base. The classic historical instance of this was the Night of the Long Knives in Hitler’s Germany, from June 30 to July 2, 1934, in which the Nazi party’s paramilitary brownshirt wing, the Sturmabteilung, or “Assault Division,” known as its stormtroopers, were subjected to a bloody purge."
Source: The Maga Ideology And The Trump Regime by John Bellamy Foster, Monthly Review / May 2025 https://arxiujosepserradell.cat/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/The-MAGA-Ideology-and-the-Trump-Regime-1.pdf
Rage, rage, rage against the dying of democracy. Then get up and do something. ✌️
"Let us not confuse objectives with methods. Too many so-called leaders of the nation fail to see the forest because of the trees. Too many of them fail to recognize the vital necessity of planning for definite objectives. True leadership calls for the setting forth of the objectives and the rallying of public opinion in support of these objectives. Do not confuse objectives with methods. When the nation becomes substantially united in favor of planning the broad objectives of civilization, then true leadership must unite thought behind definite methods.
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach.
We need enthusiasm, imagination and the ability to face facts, even unpleasant ones, bravely. We need to correct, by drastic means if necessary, the faults in our economic system from which we now suffer. We need the courage of the young. Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you. May every one of us be granted the courage, the faith and the vision to give the best that is in us to that remaking!"
Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt Speeches: Oglethorpe University Address The New Deal May 22, 1932 https://tinyurl.com/3zsnmcwe
Yes. America must support democracy around the world. First we must kick out the fascists occupying our government. Let’s keep protesting in the streets and singing the no kings anthem together: https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/no-kings-anthem
Thank you Mr. Beschloss for this post. Yes, it will absolutely take generations to repair what has already been damaged. When an administration, as just one example, stops a program like USAID which will cost millions of lives it sends the message that we just don't care anymore about our reputation and moral standing in the world. It sickens me and we must stop this.
Clearly, the current National Security Strategy of the United States of America was written in Russia.
The document is a disgrace. It is a blueprint for the abandonment of decency and democracy in favor of greed, corruption and the exercise of power.
But where is our outrage? Why isn't this document serving to galvanize a united opposition - of former and current administrators, diplomats, politicians, scholars, writers philosophers and military personnel - to stand together as one in working to bring this sordid regime to an abrupt end?
It’s a Russian dream come true
I think so too. Also read that analysts say it is the Putin wishlist. Plus it came out as he is making noise about not stopping at Ukraine.
This is exactly why Putin and Trump have to be stopped. The Europeans are finally waking up to the harsh reality of the need to defend Ukraine.
It may be Putin’s wishlist but it is even more ominously that of Miller and Vance. The destruction of US democracy may have been started by Russian election meddling in 2016, but it has empowered fascist forces of racial hatred and violent domination that are sadly home grown. How else do we come to a moment in which at least a third of our country sees its future in terms of white supremacy and oligarchical exploitation?
Myra, I believe you will find the destruction of US democracy began at least as far back as the Reagan years
No question there, Myra!
We must support democracy around the world. I believe Trump is an anomaly in his zeal for total destruction of the ideals our country stands for. There are rumblings in the Republican Party even now, against his reign of error and terror. I pray that it will be more like years, not generations, to restore some kind of sanity to our nation. The world recognizes the madness Trump has wrought and will be anxious to embrace a sane leader again.
Carole, I agree and hope for everything you have said to come to pass. Hope is not just a tiny light at the bottom of Pandora’s box. It is one ofour most powerful weapons. We must speak with one voice, if we are to purge our country of this Nazi Godzilla. The repair must begin with a speedy and complete round up of Trump and every stinking member of his cabinet. As crazy as it sounds, if January 6 and its accompanying tragedies,accomplished anything at all, it got everyone’s attention. Marches and protests are effective to a point; beyond that we need to create a public spectacle of our wannabe fascist overlords publicly humiliated, then incarcerated for the rest of their rotten lives.
Marches, protests, support for better candidates, and VOTING!
VOTING, for sure! (as long as are allowed to)BTW, voting machines must all be shut down and paper ballots must be used and hand-counted to prevent cheating!! No electronic shenanigans!
Almost all voters, 98%, use paper ballots. Others have a ballot receipt/paper trail verified by the voter when it prints out. Those are used to verify the vote tallies. There was no “electronic shenanigans.”
There are 2 reasons not to count all ballots by hand. One is that studies have shown the longer humans do a repetitive task like counting ballots the more errors they make. The other is it would not end distrust from those who don’t like the results. Hand counting takes a very long time. The longer it takes the more people think something “funny” is going on.
Ann Sharon,
I suppose my comments were made out of a sincere wish for honesty in the voting process. It follows that honesty and dishonesty are such baked in human contradictions that the means by which they are expressed matters less than one would think. That is my way of saying you are probably right in your analysis of the voting situation. I think back to ancient times when kings reached their thrones by way of royal bloodlines, a privilege sometimes characterized by mental or physical disabilities due to inbreeding. Alternately, if there were no natural male heirs to a throne, potential leaders were required to prove themselves in battle with the victor becoming king. History changes superficially with the times but for small details its driving forces remain the same because human nature does not really change much at all. Though I cannot imagine us returning to either of those ancient practices, I must admit that I do not have any better ideas for free and fair elections. Perhaps you do?
When there is distrust people feel no one represents them. Many withdraw from the process. These day trust is no longer the norm. I’m not sure how we move away from that. For decades public employees have been denigrated. They are the ones who run the voting process. Politicians make the most of sowing doubt & a group of people make $$ pushing out theories.
In most states if not all, poll workers are trained volunteers from each party who are paid a stipend. Challengers can observe the voting and observers can be present during the vote counting. So none of it is done in secret.
I believe we need a new Voting Rights Act now that SCOTUS has torn the current one apart. It’s tricky territory because each state is empowered to run their own elections. Meanwhile we don’t have time to wait for a Constitutional Amendment but with a majority we can remove obstacles.
There some ideas about changing representation in the House to get rid of gerrymandering. One is ‘at large’ Representatives. I’m not keen on that because the idea of Districts is to have people who hare common issues choose who represents them, not the entire state. I’ve heard it paired with ranked choice voting which is interesting. Still not sure how it work out in reality. An opposite idea is smaller districts - more Representatives. The number was capped in 1929. Here we are almost 100 yrs later with many more people crammed into the same number of districts making gerrymandering a sport. Here is the raise the cap idea.
https://www.amacad.org/ourcommonpurpose/initiative/enlarging-house-representatives
Beautifully said and we must hold Hope and share Hope 💙🇺🇸💙
Carole, I share your hope that we can restore some sanity to our nation as soon as possible. I suspect it will take years because we definitely have some heavy constitutional lifting to do before have any real hope of avoiding a variation of this current insanity returning. Among other things, I have begun to believe our current two-party system is part of our problem.
But I don’t share your hope the world will be anxious to embrace our leader in anything like the years for saving our democracy. I think we must start fresh, repudiate our historic hubris, and earn our place among equal, and hopefully democratic, nations. If we can be a true democracy, we will be a strong bulwark among the democratic nations of the world. As an octogenarian, I don’t really expect to live to see that acceptance of our “belonging”, though I would love to be surprised!
Phil, I agree that it will require a great rebuilding of trust to earn back our reputation as any sort of beacon of freedom and democracy (however misplaced that reputation may have been at times). I’m in my 70s and still attempting to be optimistic, but I’m not sure where the arc of history is bending now…
I think the, or another, question should be: Do you support the global expansion of crony capitalism....
That document is terrifying!
A document like what has just been published makes me exceedingly sad - and a bit angry - because it’s not what we stand for as Americans. Maybe the Trump Oligarchy likes this, but I don’t.
This is not a strategic plan, it is a business plan, purely transactional. The messy democratic process is treated as an impediment to a good business deal. There is no profit to be gained from empathy and human values. The United States has been a beacon of democracy because we have practiced those democratic values, as messy as it is, and continue to aspire to a more perfect union...until trump. We have made mistakes when we try to assert our values on other nations - Vietnam being a key example. But if we can rid ourselves of the MAGA malignancy and continue our drive to an inclusive democracy, the innovation that freedom unleashes will again draw other nations to our democratic system.
Agreed, Stephen. Expressing the values without living them is a failing enterprise. I believe that fundamental desire for freedom can’t be extinguished once lit.
Exactly a a proposed takeover by the wealthiest and most despotic creatures on the planet. Hitler with unlimited financial backing.
And very dangerous.
💔
Expansion of democracy worldwide made us a little safer. Destroying democracy, well, not so much.
It seems to me that even with a Democrat in the White House in January 2029, it will take decades to regain the trust of allies. After all, they are well aware that, given the Electoral College, 20,000 voters in, say, Wisconsin, can cause our foreign policy to turn on a dime. Why try to build an alliance.
In addition, this document is a profound statement of weakness and insecurity rather than strength and confidence.
To answer your prompt, yes, America needs to promote democratic values around the world, and to try to do a better job of modeling those values at home.
When this time in history is reviewed?
The abject failures of corporate media to hold Trump and Republicans accountable for this pernicious slide into fascism will be the lead story.
We have known since 2016 that the Trump crime family and Republican traitors are wholly owned subsidiaries of Russia and the Kremlin
The NRA money- laundered over $400 million which all went to Trump and the Republican Party
The bipartisan Senate committee proved beyond a doubt that Russia put its finger on the scale to steal the 2016 elections
The Kremlin holds all the proof
Do people really think that Republicans are that afraid of Trump or is really Putin?
We must save American democracy
We are the beacon of light and freedom for the rest of the world
Every voter must vote for Democrats, for every seat for every at every level of government matters
Then the world can see we take our responsibilities seriously
The NSS is an affront to all democracies in the world, including our own. Much of it was lifted from Project 2025's section on the State Department. Despite the high-blown language and swagger of the NSS document, it is a pox upon our country. Assuming Trump is not long for this world, it would be a while until any successor, sadly JD Vance, would be able to implement it. I for one think that given the level of incompetence in the regime and its toadies that the tasks they outline will take more than they are capable of doing. I also think that once Trump realizes that the extent of his grabbing and grift with other free nations will be limited to the Western Hemisphere, he'll sour on the plan. Yes, there is the Middle Eastern component that seems to be the candle in the purported dark of our current policy, but if and when we hook up with China and Russia directly, there will be jealousy and strife. All of which is to say, when you destabilize the world order expect some things to not work out as planned. I firmly believe that the extent of the changes in the NSS-2025 will be 1) fought like hell by the soon coming Democratic Congress; and 2) be bungled in its implementation. I also believe that there will be a Democrat president in 2028 and that mostly all of the policies, dictums and disgraces of the regime will be disavowed, torn down, literally, and the rest of the regime scattered to their think tank holes. It is the job of the resistance to begin now to decry the NSS policies, to make clear we are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore, and that the next decade or two will be ours to rescue what we can of our relationships with our current allies, adding more of them, and assuring the world that the Trump regime was a historical aberration and that we will never return to it. The elections in 2026 will mark the beginning of the end of the regime. I think if you told the American people--all of them, especially MAGA--that the United States would no longer be the leader of the free world but a crony to despots, they'd rise up, refute and disable the NSS. It's the only patriotic thing we can do and it's time we agreed that for all its anger and bluster, MAGA sees itself as patriots. We must help them see the stakes ahead. It's our job as keepers of the flame of liberty.
I am more than concerned with this paradigm shift in foreign policy. The business and profit undertones are apparent but swing voters failed to research the man and MAGA and voted with their emotions. And here we are. I will not live long enough to see this restored to “the old days”
I am especially concerned with the impact that this will have on Canada as they excel their efforts to wean any dependence upon the US. Unfortunately, cross border industry is hostage to the uncertainties of the Trump administration. The Canadians, not so. PM Carney is demonstrating his acumen and repositioning Canada to thrive.
Trump’s neofascist regime is a desperate act of a declining empire. It has supplanted neoliberalism only in the sense that the right wing of the ruling class itself is now in direct and open command of the state, seeking to restructure it as a vehicle of resurgent hegemony. The conflict between neofascism as a more regressive global capitalist project designed to preserve and enhance the power of the ruling capitalists with their global interests, on the one hand, and the national-populist movement of the MAGA radical right focused primarily on the conquest of the administrative state, on the other, means that the mega-capitalist interests will continually betray the MAGA “populist” base, viewed as mere cannon fodder in the Cold Civil War. [pp. 18-19]
Source: The Maga Ideology And The Trump Regime by John Bellamy Foster, Monthly Review / May 2025 https://arxiujosepserradell.cat/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/The-MAGA-Ideology-and-the-Trump-Regime-1.pdf
Thanks for the link. Explains it well
Thank you, Dalton D. S.. I think the entire article is worth reading. My historical understanding increased, as it seems yours did. I encourage those wishing to become more informed to browse or read more than just the snippet quoted. The author presents data, history, context and identifiable patterns. JMHO 🙏 KH
Thank you for this descriptive analysis and for the link
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with all these codes it is so annoying to try to comment, but I have persevered.
This NSS document is a travesty and a repudiation of all of our deeply held beliefs. If allowed to stand, we will be finished as a world power and influencer for democracy forever. It saddened AND angers me.
THIS CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO STAND!!! Trump and his merry of traitors and idiots need to be gone.