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This National Security Strategy is a Joke | Shield of the Republic

2025-12-15 News & Politics
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Eric and Eliot discuss the newly released National Security Strategy's flaws, highlighting its incoherence and hostility to Europe. They note the strategy's unwillingness to identify Russia, China, and Iran as enemies of the United States and the abdication of the U.S. role in maintaining global order. The pair also discuss the latest pressure on Ukraine to capitulate to Russia before welcoming returning guest Representative Jim Himes for a conversation about the Trump Administration's Venezuela policy. Eric on the NSS in The Bulwark: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-national-security-strategy-foreign-policy-defense-allies-china-russia-iran-north-korea Eliot on the NSS in The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/national-security-strategy-incoherent-babble/685166/?gift=KGDC3VdV8jaCufvP3bRsPhY0neK1oFmUu2ila2ZbOTc&utm_ The 2025 National Security Strategy: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf Shield of the Republic is a Bulwark podcast co-sponsored by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. Become a Bulwark Youtube Plus Member here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG4Hp1KbGw4e02N7FpPXDgQ/join

Top Comments (10)

@stepheng3985 2025-12-15

MAGA: Moscow Agents Governing America

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@russellburress6240 2025-12-15

I serve proudly in the United States Coast Guard for 24 years I've done drug enforcement boarding since the mid-70s and in 1988 I was first deployed on a US Naval vessel as a tactical law enforcement team to stop and board vessels on the high seas there is strict procedures that the Coast Guard follows under their authority of Title 18 United States Code section 89 I had to memorize that code in boot camp. Before this Administration we worked with the Navy we are only authorized to use disabling fire to take out an engine if the vessel refused other efforts to get it to stop and we sure as hell didn't need multi-million dollar missiles those types of vessels you could disable or sink with a 50 caliber machine gun as the congressman said this is a performance video production by Trump and the Department of Defense for the bloodlust of their base that's it

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@stephenmcfarland7839 2025-12-15

The NSS: America will bully our nearby neighbors, and China and Russia can bully their neighbors in peace.

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@jayfarber4251 2025-12-15

Get real there is no plan, other then give it all to Russia and China.

48 1 replies
@greatboniwanker 2025-12-15

First he says the economy is Joe Biden's fault. _Then_ he gives himself an A++++++ 🤨

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@vanhamies8512 2025-12-15

What this administration is doing to its allies and trading partners is largely irreversible, face it. The US threatens Canada with annexation and is attacking it economically. The US threatens to undermine European democracies and the EU itself. It's giving a green light to Russian aggression. How does that get turned around?

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@Oldtired-99 2025-12-15

Europe is already preparing for war in governments telling their people about amount of food, how to save water, stocking up on batteries etc. They are also now realializing the US is now an enemy and highly unreliable as member of NATO.

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@colchiandragon7396 2025-12-15

Rep. Himes has a fair degree of confidence that that boat was hauling drugs? Well, if the navy had fished those two shipwrecked guys out of the water together with a couple of bales of the "drugs," we would know for sure. Rep. Himes is part of the problem. What a disgrace.

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@akeleven 2025-12-15

Why does everybody insist Biden refuse to deal with immigration when it was the Republicans that refused to vote for the immigration bill?

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@lindamacdonald9220 2025-12-15

The NSS is a document prepared by the so-called "heritage" foundation. IMO reagan among others, including nixon, laid the ground for maga, trump, and this horrific situation we're currently struggling to overcome. The "we" appears not to include the gop despite the Indiana senate voting a clear no to more gerrymandering in their state. It has been "heritage" thuggery leading the threats. I think that tells you all you need to know about where we are. The party once called republican has become a fascist party, like putin's party in russia. The maga believers behind the scenes are using trump for their own purposes. This same movement used reagan as well.

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