UPDATED: Trump sets out national security strategy of 'principled realism' and global competition

[DonViejo]

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Source: The Washington Post


By Anne Gearan December 18 at 2:45 PM

President Trump framed a new national security strategy Monday that cast his election as a pivot from failed economic policies and shortsighted negotiating strategies.

“You spoke loud and you spoke clear,” Trump said of his upset election last year. “On November 8, you voted to make America great again. You embraced new leadership and new strategies and also a glorious new hope,” he said.

The congressionally mandated National Security Strategy presents China and Russia as competitors that want to realign global power in their interests, potentially threatening the United States.

“Whether we like it or not, we are engaged in a new era of competition,” Trump said.


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UPDATE:

Trump: U.S. can't guard its interests abroad if it doesn't 'protect prosperity at home'

The president’s first National Security Strategy takes a tough line on Russia as critics wonder whether it reflects Trump’s true thinking.

By DARREN SAMUELSOHN and MICHAEL CROWLEY 12/18/2017 05:14 AM EST Updated 12/18/2017 03:17 PM EST

President Donald Trump unveiled a national security plan Monday that reflects the most inward-focused vision of American foreign policy in recent memory — with a heavy emphasis on economic strength and defending U.S. borders.

In remarks Monday afternoon, Trump pointed to his November 2016 election and his January inauguration as turning points for a nation whose leaders he said had forgotten "whose voices they were to respect and whose interests they were supposed to defend."

"Optimism has surged. Confidence has returned. With this new confidence, we are also bringing back clarity to our thinking. We are reasserting these fundamental truths: A nation without borders is not a nation. A nation that does not protect prosperity at home cannot protect its interests abroad," he said. Trump also argued that strength at home is the first step toward strength abroad.

"A nation that is not prepared to win a war is a nation not capable of preventing a war. A nation that is not proud of its history cannot be confident in its future and a nation that is not certain of its values cannot summon the will to defend them."

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https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/18/trump-foreign-policy-security-302242?lo=ap_b1

[underpants]

1. Hope? She now he's stealing OBAMA's line?

What a dick.

[barbtries]

3. yeah.

my hope is less glorious than desperate.

[thegoose]

10. And he brought up his "tremendous" victory

Again! What a double dick.

[barbtries]

2. what the fuck is this supposed to mean.

during the election a caller to Cspan who was a trumpster predicted a 100 year world war. he wanted that. i was so horrified. now i'm beginning to think that trump wants that too, and he's setting it up for the USA to lose. i just cannot figure out the end game to his constant, incessant, relentless, attack on anything and everything that made this country what it used to be, a country i once felt very grateful to have been born in and lived in.

[disalitervisum]

5. Of course that is what trump wants

He wants revenge on the whole wold and doesn't care how he gets it. That is his game, period. He and his whole filthy family fuck people. That is who they are, that is what they do, and that is all they do.

[blaze]

4. "a glorious new hope" Not sure why that phrased creeped me out. nt

[disalitervisum]

6. Because it is lifted directly from "Mein Kampf" and other Hitler/Nazi pronouncements

Even if you've never read it, some things are instinctive.

[B Stieg]

7. Star Wars pun?

Everything the Creep-in-Chief does freaks me out, too.
The first film in the Star Wars saga, actually Episode 4, is entitled, "A New Hope."
And Trump and Bannon do seem like pure Sith, so...

[Turbineguy]

8. It turns out

a bunch of European countries foresaw his ascension and increased defense spending in 2013.

[DavidDvorkin]

9. "Trump" and "principled" don't go together.

[Botany]

11. I.O.W. I will do what my boss tells me to do.

[dhill926]

12. Ah...just shut the fuck up already....

[ananda]

13. Translate: unreasonable delusion and Russia first

nt

[lunatica]

14. The man kisses his own ass so hard he leaves hickies

[Vogon_Glory]

15. Principled Realism--SAY WHAT?????

The Trumpistas and the Partida Bananero Republicano have neither.

The principled, realistic objective of all patriotic Americans should be to throw these vende-patrias out of office, then sent in the investigators and prosecute.

[Nitram]

16. "Principled realism?" Ha! Trump is incapable of either.