Preventing empire collapse
The Duran Podcast
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🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Preventing empire collapse
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Alexander, let's talk about the big document that everyone is talking about, |
| 0:06.5 | which is the U.S. National Security Strategy, the new security document, which defines outlines |
| 0:17.2 | and defines U.S. foreign policy going forward for the next one year, two years, |
| 0:23.7 | three years, I don't know, until a new president comes into, comes into power. Anyway, |
| 0:29.3 | this is another document, an important document. Many people believe that much of it was drafted |
| 0:37.3 | by Colby in the Pentagon. |
| 0:42.5 | This is going to be the United States' roadmap for foreign policy going forward over the |
| 0:51.5 | remainder of Trump's presidency. Your thoughts on this document? |
| 0:56.9 | Well, 33 pages. |
| 0:58.8 | 33 pages. |
| 1:00.7 | And I would say that it is very, very different from similar strategic security documents |
| 1:08.8 | that we've seen out of this series, come out of the United States, |
| 1:13.9 | come out of the Pentagon before. But I think a few things to say about it. Firstly, it is not a |
| 1:20.1 | complete break with the past. I mean, it would be an error to think that it was, but neither is it a continuation of the past into the indefinite |
| 1:31.3 | future. |
| 1:32.3 | It's somewhere in between. |
| 1:34.3 | So there is a lot of neocon thinking, Wolfovitz doctrine thinking still there, but at the same time, it does actually represent a real break and a real evolution |
| 1:49.3 | of policy and a change in direction. If, if, and it's a very big if, it is ever put into practice. |
| 1:59.7 | Now, Trump himself obviously endorses it. He's not only signed |
| 2:03.9 | off on it, but he's written a preface for it. So he's obviously in harmony with the ideas that |
| 2:12.3 | it sets out. But we've seen that Trump himself can change from one week to the next. |
| 2:18.6 | So, you know, it might be the strategy that guides the administration for the next three years, |
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