Your breakdown makes something undeniable: the most revealing moment of this entire NSS rollout didn’t happen in the U.S. — it happened when Moscow applauded it. Authoritarian regimes don’t celebrate American strength. They celebrate American self-limitation, American retreat, and American acceptance of their worldview.
Once you remove democracy, human rights, and the dignity of individual people from America’s strategic calculus, you’ve adopted Russia’s terms. And the shift from “America as a moral actor” to “America as just another great power” isn’t realism — it’s capitulation dressed up as pragmatism.
This is the part too many still don’t see clearly.
I like this very much. It’s a very fair take about what this document says what needs addressing re our foreign policy. And I agree with the criticism and the assessment of it’s chances. Democracy and human rights are nonexistent and it’s not only about abroad but here first of all. Where is any respect for everyone else on this small planet and its endangered ecosystem/environment?? And where, above all, given that we are democratic republic, does the consensus come from? Or is this supposed to be imposed on us regardless once they have completed their coup? Thank you Elise.
Ms. Labott, did anyone at the Reagan Forum understand Reagan's vision of America? Did you attend? There must have been an oversight, I wasn't invited. But I was cought up in Pete Hegseth's motorcade. Take care.
So good.
Your breakdown makes something undeniable: the most revealing moment of this entire NSS rollout didn’t happen in the U.S. — it happened when Moscow applauded it. Authoritarian regimes don’t celebrate American strength. They celebrate American self-limitation, American retreat, and American acceptance of their worldview.
Once you remove democracy, human rights, and the dignity of individual people from America’s strategic calculus, you’ve adopted Russia’s terms. And the shift from “America as a moral actor” to “America as just another great power” isn’t realism — it’s capitulation dressed up as pragmatism.
This is the part too many still don’t see clearly.
I like this very much. It’s a very fair take about what this document says what needs addressing re our foreign policy. And I agree with the criticism and the assessment of it’s chances. Democracy and human rights are nonexistent and it’s not only about abroad but here first of all. Where is any respect for everyone else on this small planet and its endangered ecosystem/environment?? And where, above all, given that we are democratic republic, does the consensus come from? Or is this supposed to be imposed on us regardless once they have completed their coup? Thank you Elise.
Terrific article. Worrisome direction for America. Thank you, Elise!
Ms. Labott, did anyone at the Reagan Forum understand Reagan's vision of America? Did you attend? There must have been an oversight, I wasn't invited. But I was cought up in Pete Hegseth's motorcade. Take care.