Trump’s National Security Strategy Enshrines Evil Across The World

Dear Editor,

President Trump’s newly published National Security Strategy is a dream come true for imperialist autocrats. Vladimir Putin has just confirmed this underlying “spirit” by saying Trump’s vision is largely aligned with Russia’s vision. Trump is effectively conceding in advance whatever land Putin wins in Ukraine, Poland, and even Western Europe. This is like allowing thieves to keep their loot rather than working to restore it to their rightful owners.
Normally, warring parties enter a peace process, where the new spheres of influence among neighboring nations is subject to the ongoing concerns of non-imperialist nations and of international law treaties like NATO.

In its present Trumpian form, the new boundaries established by rogue nations the world over are essentially made permanent without a peace conference and without ongoing international supervision. This more resembles the medieval “right of conquest” of kings. Each king who spreads his own skirts over new land in his part of the world gets to keep it. This gives Europe to expansionist Putin, Asia to Xi, and the western hemisphere to Trump.
This is the peace pipe that Trump is smoking with Putin and Xi today.

Kimball Shinkoskey