Inside the Disastrous New U.S. Security Strategy | EYES ON GEOPOLITICS

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🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In this episode, the team breaks down the newly released U.S. National Security Strategy, calling out its dramatic shift away from Europe, democracy promotion, and traditional alliances in favor of a hardline, transactional, Western Hemisphere–first approach. They dive into what this means for Russia, Ukraine, NATO, mass migration, and the growing risk of global power realignment. The conversation also examines Venezuela, Europe’s urgent need to rearm, and whether America is walking away from its role as leader of the free world.
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00:00 – Start
01:08 – Why this NSS is a historic break & Monroe Doctrine 2.0
9:20 – From promoting democracy to raw transactional power
18:09 – Russia no longer an “adversary” & what that means for Ukraine
22:55 – Can Europe still rely on America? NATO, decoupling & rearmament
31:08 – Migration, “cultural erasure” & the immigration reality check
35:03 – Middle East reset, Israel downgrade & shifting U.S. forces
44:04 – Venezuela, Western Hemisphere war footing & closing rant on democracy

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Eyes on Geopolitics. I am Dimitri Kontakos. I'm here with Jason Lyons, Mick Mulroy. We're here. Do us a favor, like and subscribe. If you're listening to us on audio, give it rated five stars, subscribe there as well. And if you want to support the show Patreon.com slash the team house.
0:39.1	Mick has a new podcast, of course, the pub and the porch, applied stoicism. It's great. Comes out every Monday. Check it out. Links are in the description. Jason's links are in the description. Everything and anything you need to know is down in the description or the show notes. So thank you. All right, guys. A lot happening as usual. The big news, I think it came out on Friday,
0:41.7	was the National Security Strategy,
0:44.9	and I dubbed it, and I'm going to trademark this.
0:47.2	I'm going to call it the love letter to Putin,
0:48.8	or love letter to Vladimir.
0:51.6	Incredible stuff.
0:53.9	I'm sure, Mick, you mentioned that you've been talking about it since it came out.
0:55.7	So what are your initial thoughts?
1:00.6	And then after you started going through it, what did you come up with?
1:03.5	Did anything change?
1:05.3	Where are you at with this?
1:08.3	Yeah.
1:10.1	Yeah, I've been totally geeking out.
1:11.6	I'm going to lie about this, not in a good way, but certainly really digging into what this
1:18.6	means for the United States and the world, because we are the most consequential nation,
1:24.6	I think, bias, of course.
1:26.6	But the national security strategy for the United States impacts, essentially, the globe. Where to start? See change from the last, really any national security strategy going back to the end of World War II, including the national
1:46.5	security strategy we drafted in 2017, the first Trump administration, which was very much in
1:52.9	line with past national security strategies. This is a complete departure in my estimation.
2:00.6	So the, and we could talk about this for three episodes, to be frank, even though it's a, you know,
2:04.9	around 30 pages.
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