pcr presents a much more hopeful change of course than he or i could have imagine;

A Change in Course: President Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy Document

Paul Craig Roberts

If President Trump’s 2025 national security strategy document means anything, and I hope it does, the Union of Atomic Scientists can move back the hand on the doomsday clock a couple of hours. If President Trump’s strategy can survive the opposition of interest groups and the ideological left of the Democratic Party, and is continued by his successors in office, President Trump has indeed changed the course of America and the world.

The document endorses many of the points that I have made for decades. I will get to some of these points in a moment, but first of the greatest importance is the document’s abandonment of the Wolfowitz doctrine of American hegemony. In place of this war prone doctrine, Trump’s strategy is to approach the world on the basis of economic competitiveness. Of primary importance is the document’s call for reestablishing strategic stability between Russia and the United States and Europe. The absence of strategic stability between the West and Russia is a path to nuclear war. Thus, Trump’s approach to national security addresses the most fundamental issue of our time...........more....