Europe should find some incentive to be more assertive and even aggressive in response to Vance’s obnoxious references to Europe’s “erasure” of its civilization and his appeals to Europe’s dangerous neo-fascist parties. Trump added his own abuse, calling the European leaders “weak,” and obnoxiously stating that NATO’s members now call him “daddy.” One of the sad aspects of the NSS is that it treats the European Union as a bigger threat to the United States than either Russia or China. Trump, who makes no sense on any of these matters, believes that the EU was formed to “screw” the United States. More stupidity.
Trump Has Trashed the US’s Post-WW II Foreign Policy
An Obtuse and Idiotic National Security Strategy
Melvin Goodman December 14, 2025
Europe should find some incentive to be more assertive and even aggressive in response to Vance’s obnoxious references to Europe’s “erasure” of its civilization and his appeals to Europe’s dangerous neo-fascist parties. Trump added his own abuse, calling the European leaders “weak,” and obnoxiously stating that NATO’s members now call him “daddy.” One of the sad aspects of the NSS is that it treats the European Union as a bigger threat to the United States than either Russia or China. Trump, who makes no sense on any of these matters, believes that the EU was formed to “screw” the United States. More stupidity.
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Melvin A. Goodman is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and a professor of government at Johns Hopkins University. A former CIA analyst, Goodman is the author of Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA and National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism. and A Whistleblower at the CIA. His most recent books are “American Carnage: The Wars of Donald Trump” (Opus Publishing, 2019) and “Containing the National Security State” (Opus Publishing, 2021). Goodman is the national security columnist for counterpunch.org.
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