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For all the talk of a “new American century,” Washington’s 2025 National Security Strategy reads less like a roadmap for global leadership and more like a manifesto for managed decline.

Europe’s attempt to reclaim strategic autonomy through an unprecedented defense buildup reveals a continent trapped between external insecurity, internal fragmentation, and declining trust in the United States.

The failure to turn Ukraine into an American military foothold on strategically sensitive territory so close to Russia’s capital confirms the need for a new geopolitical platform.