If there’s one conclusion we can draw from the recently released National Security Strategy put out by the Trump administration, it’s that the current crop of Americans in power really do feel like victims of the world that America created.
In that strategy, the White House outlined the Trump administration’s priorities, outlooks and hoped for direction. While it’s common for U.S. presidencies to release high-level documents of this kind, this year’s version is, to put it mildly, a serious vibe check. Taken in toto, the strategy is a rationale for America to withdraw its support for the world order as we know it, and instead take a role that is overtly transactional and self interested. This is an America that sees global leadership not as being a chief among equals, but rather one in which the top dog barks while the rest of us are expected to roll over. One in which American strength and wealth are not built by mutual alliances, but rather through zero-sum infighting.
This is stated quite explicitly in the document, which I implore every Canadian to read fully and understand.
The Star has a surplus of hysterical types.
The shock that after 80 years America isn’t going to pay everyone’s way is just too much to handle.
Timing is everything.
