Savage take on Trump's National Security Strategy
When lickspittles write
Eliot Cohen appropriately savages Trump, Hegseth, and all associated with the recently published National Security Strategy.
The Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy has landed, with not so much a thud as a kind of greasy flutter. Most of the document consists of bombast, sycophancy, lies, inconsistencies, and grotesque self-contradictions ... Once upon a time, these documents were drafted by intellects such as Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski—both, notably, refugee immigrants. The reports they produced were reasoned, sometimes anodyne, but usually consistent, thoughtful, and historically informed. This NSS seems to have been put together by lickspittles with literary aspirations but no discernible literary skills.