Paul Warburg on America’s self-destructive new strategy
As a rule, ignorance in high places does not go unremarked. Ignorance is one of the markers of the Trump administration, almost as though the president does not believe in knowledge and experience. Perhaps he associates it with that self-interested profession of government which he saw, at least at the beginning of his first term, as “the swamp”. He certainly values loyalty and ideological unity above it. How else could one explain Hegseth and Gabbard ... Witkoff ... Kushner? As best, they are signifiers of the shallowness and inconsistency of MAGA thinking.
Here is Paul Warburg lucidly explaining the new National Security Strategy’s intellectual failings. He doesn’t venture into MAGA ideology. Alas, there are no revelations about Donald Trump’s Cromwellian leanings, courtesy of Curtis whatsisname. But the trespass of ideology on the ground of strategy is identified as the basic mistake of the confused people in the State Department who fashioned the new policy (which, if it survives reality for any extended period is going to have profoundly negative implications for the European world).
Paul is a geopolitical analyst associated with The Icarus Project.
