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A Sovereignty‑First Wake‑Up Call
Greg Taylor With Mary Otto-Chang
On December 4, 2025, the Trump Administration unveiled its National Security Strategy (NSS 2025), a 33‑page manifesto that reads like a sovereignty declaration
A Sovereignty‑First Wake‑Up Call
On December 4, 2025, the Trump Administration unveiled its National Security Strategy (NSS 2025), a 33‑page manifesto that reads like a sovereignty declaration. Gone are the platitudes of “rules‑based order” and “shared values” that defined Obama’s and Biden’s documents, replaced by unapologetic sovereignty, rooted in the Constitution, not supranational bureaucracies.
As whispers of European retaliation swirl, threats to dump trillions in U.S. Treasuries over Ukraine policy, the transatlantic rift feels seismic. Can an alliance built on unity survive when one side clings to citizen sovereignty and the other to institutional control?
The NSS Verdict on Europe
Europe’s technocracy, digital IDs, central bank digital currencies, censorship laws, redefine “liberal democracy” as top‑down control. Birth rates plummet below replacement levels, migration strains welfare states, and reflexive deference to Brussels erodes sovereignty. These are not the shared values of 1949; they are erosions of the very sovereignty NATO was meant to defend.
But NSS 2025 is not anti‑European; it is pro‑Constitution, insisting America won’t subsidize a club that confuses institutions with the people they serve. For ordinary citizens on both sides of the Atlantic, the message resonates: why bleed for partners who won’t pay their share or share our values?
Ukraine: The Flashpoint
No issue crystallizes this divergence like Ukraine. NSS 2025 seeks “strategic stability,” a pragmatic armistice freezing lines, no regime change in Moscow, and an end to escalation that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and billions in “aid”. It is sovereignty in action: America avoids forever wars, treating Russia as a peer competitor rather than a cartoon villain.
NSS 2025 exposes how Europe’s “democracy vs. autocracy” binary serves institutional power, not people. U.S. voters, weary of proxy quagmires, back restraint. Europeans, similarly, prioritize energy security over heroism. Yet leaders march on, turning Ukraine into a sunk‑cost fallacy that drains both continents.
The Treasury Bluff
Enter the nuclear option: Europe’s quiet threats to offload $2.3–2.5 trillion in U.S. Treasuries if Trump forces a Ukraine settlement without their blessing. Dumping bonds would spike U.S. yields, hiking borrowing costs by hundreds of billions annually. But the boomerang is brutal, European banks, hooked on Treasuries as collateral, would face liquidity crunches; and the euro could crater amid flight to safety.
For Trump, it is a test of resolve. It underscores the values chasm: America’s “We the people” democracy or Europe’s globalist drift. NATO can’t endure this; it is a treaty of defense, not debt collection.
Conclusion: NATO’s Last Stand
NSS 2025 isn’t anti‑NATO; it is pro‑reform, demanding a leaner alliance of sovereign equals, not a welfare state for the wary. But Europe’s response, prolonging Ukraine, floating Treasury tantrums, signals deeper malaise. When “shared values” mean U.S. sovereignty versus EU technocracy, the alliance fractures.
Will Europe hit spending targets, embrace peace, and rediscover borders and free speech? Or will it force America’s hand, proving NSS 2025 right, that globalism’s abyss claims even allies?
If NATO survives, it will be reborn smaller, sharper, citizen‑first. If not, the transatlantic bond dissolves into history’s footnotes, a relic of a time when America deferred to Davos, and Europe forgot what it means to stand alone.
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Executive Summary
The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy 2025 (NSS 2025) marks a sharp break from decades of globalist doctrine, replacing “rules‑based order” rhetoric with unapologetic sovereignty rooted in the Constitution. Its central focus is Europe, where NATO’s endless expansion, demographic decline, and technocratic drift are cast as liabilities rather than strengths. The strategy demands allies meet real defense spending targets by 2027 or face U.S. retrenchment, reframing NATO as a partnership of sovereign equals rather than a subsidized club.
Ukraine exposes the fracture: Washington seeks pragmatic stability, while European leaders prolong confrontation under the banner of “democracy vs. autocracy.” The rift deepens with threats to dump trillions in U.S. Treasuries, a financial bluff that would wound Europe as much as America. NSS 2025 insists NATO must reform or risk collapse. The verdict is stark: sovereignty first, or the transatlantic bond dissolves into history’s footnotes.
SOURCES:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/2015_national_security_strategy_2.pdf
https://www.cfr.org/expert-brief/unpacking-trump-twist-national-security-strategy
https://www.nato.int/content/dam/nato/webready/documents/finance/def-exp-2025-en.pdf
https://www.nato.int/en/what-we-do/introduction-to-nato/defence-expenditures-and-natos-5-commitment
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2140719/trump-ukraine-russia-peace-deal-europe