National Security Strategy

I just want to bring that back around because we have people in the Rumble chat.

We're going back to it because the Dawn Roe Doctrine, the National Security Strategy, and the laws and orders, and the executive orders as well say so.

So, you know, yeah, I have to wait.

Derek has to wait.

Hopefully, we get pleasant surprises and not, uh, unpleasant surprises as we, as we head towards the election season.

But talking about US policy, the slide you have here, I, I was reading it before you hopped on, and it just reminded me of the Monroe Doctrine that you wrote about over the weekend, and the national security strategy that, that we talked about at length that was released November of last year.

And I think both these headlines point towards a confirmation of that worldview that was laid out in the Do- Doctrine, which is like, hey, we wanna pack it into, uh, our hemisphere, create trade partners, and, and bolster the economies and political systems of our immediate neighbors.

So on the left we have Iceland looking to expand military footprint in the Arctic.

Now, all this isn't a coincidence, because the Heartland Institute and the Heritage Foundation helped write Project 2025, the authoritarian anti-climate blueprint for the second Trump presidency.

Which in turn has helped inform the new US National Security Strategy.

A National Security strategy that has literally called for the cultivation of resistance against liberal democratic politics by sponsoring far right groups in Europe.

And according to the right-wing magazine The Spectator, key people who helped draft Project 2025 are now shuttling between Washington and London to teach Farage how to implement American techno fascism over here.

Uh, it, it, there is a, you know, it's, it needs its soft power, uh, uh, and it needs to have alternative sources of influence to make sure that Iran comes back to the negotiating table and that there is a, there is an, uh, you know, there is an, an exit strategy that isn't as disastrous as it currently looks.

In terms of withdrawal of the United States from the region, well, this has been part of, um, not just Project 2025, the great blueprint for this administration, but also the National Security Strategy and National Defense Strategy first came out November of last year.

National Distr- Defense Strategy came out in January of this year.

That calls for a reduced footprint, uh, in the Middle East.

The, for those that don't know, the United Kingdom is part of the member, uh, is one of the members of Five Eyes, the UK, Canada, uh, US, Australia, and New Zealand, basically the Anglosphere, as an intelligence-sharing alliance, and we're showing that we, we cannot trust you to actually, uh, a- actually protect our troops here.

Now, the Trump administration has derided Europe as a whole, saying that their lack of security and migration policies are transforming the continent, and this was all in the US, uh, 2025 National Security Strategy, which- We covered it, we cover basically daily now.

Now, I do think that the US is going to take that and likely use this incident to pressure Europe into radical immigration policy, policy changes on the basis that they threaten not only American national security, but also the various European national securities.

Yeah, this is-- This withdrawal indicates, uh, this, this highlights that there is a, you know, this is, this is a national security level event.

This is something that having the presence of all these American corporate CEOs that does transmit to President Xi, his cabinet, and all his analysts that America is going to rebuild America.

At home, not just in the military sense that we are focusing on the Western hemisphere, but economically, just like wrote was released 10 months ago and the national security strategy that the importance is our homeland and And the importance in that national security strategy is you cannot separate our military from our domestic economy.

Those two are tied together and we cannot have a situation that we've gotten ourselves into where we are dependent upon foreign countries that we are adversarial with or we are likely to become adversarial or hostile with, we just can't have it.

And that's something that was clearly articulated in the 2025 National Security Strategy.

And that's something that was indirectly messaged to President Xi and his team that President Trump is going full bore with all these CEOs and even other CEOs that are not high tech, but all across America, we are doing whatever we can to to rebuild and put the economic investment incentives and to be able to remanufacture and build here at home and to assemble, especially our military products here at home.

That is something that President Xi, his cabinet, and his analysts, they're going to have to go back to the drawing board and see, okay, how long is that going to take the United States? And they are right now, we are dependent on We cannot sustain military operations without depending on these rare earth metals from China and many other things.

Well, as far as preferring to work with any particular official, uh, the US has been very clear.

I think it was in the National Security Strategy.

Uh, it might've been in the, in the Defense Strategy.

But they said, "Hey, we'll work with basically anybody as long as you are working with us." Um, they don't care about the system of government.

You know, it's interesting your observation about the racial component.

Uh, in one of our early episodes, John and I talked about the Trump national security strategy.

Usually, those documents are pretty turgid and written by committee.

In this case, it's almost a cri de coeur of identity politics masquerading as strategy, where they really talk about civilization and the threat to effectively, in their view, white civilization, which is a, a strikingly distinctive feature, at least of modern American statecraft, as you say.

So seeing Anne Applebaum or hearing her say, you know, "I've just come back from the heart of Venezuela's oil industry," I, I thought that was extremely impressive, and we need more people like that.

Kind of reminds me back of our conversation with Patrick Radden Keefe, who, uh, can connect the big thematic to the personal and the human in a very cool way, and I think that's, that's just a, a massive service.

The other thing that I would say, I mentioned the Trump National Security Strategy, which you and I spent a lot of time on in one of our very early episodes when we were still teething this podcast, but I was just looking back at it as she was talking, and there's a paragraph in it that really kind of captures what she's talking about with this larger ambition.

Uh, and I just want to read the paragraph.