Secret longer version of US National Security Strategy calls for Core 5 countries to run the world
Source: MSN/IntelliNews
A secret longer version of the US National Security Strategy (NSS) calls for “Make Europe Great Again” but says a new “Core 5” (C5) group of countries – US, China, India, Russia, and Japan – should run the world, Defence One reported on December 9.
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However, a secret and longer version, seen by Defence One, goes into more detail. It reaffirms a withdrawal from Europe’s defence, realignment with culturally aligned allies, and the creation of a new power bloc to replace Western-dominated forums such as the G7.
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The secret version lays out in detail a US policy of interference in European domestic policies but overtly backing right-wing governments, parties and political players on the Continent, as well as replacing the longstanding transatlantic “special relationship” with a looser, interest-driven alliance.
The Nato alliance will be downgraded and security and foreign relations will move towards more transactional one-on-one partnerships with like-minded countries such as Austria, Hungary, Italy and Poland. These nations are described as aligned with Washington's values and potential candidates for deeper cooperation aimed at pulling them “away from the [European Union],” according to the document.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/secret-longer-version-of-us-national-security-strategy-calls-for-core-5-countries-to-run-the-world/ar-AA1S4CJY
Full DefenseOne article: https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/12/make-europe-great-again-and-more-longer-version-national-security-strategy/410038/?oref=d1-homepage-top-story
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Lovie777
(21,457 posts)it would be total calamity, many will suffer and die.
durablend
(8,842 posts)Escurumbele
(3,996 posts)By that I don't mean they won't try, but I believe they would not succeed.
Miguelito Loveless
(5,378 posts)Umm, how are we "culturally aligned" with these folks? Or they with us? Japan is the closest, and it is night and day to us culturally speaking.
Bev54
(13,125 posts)popsdenver
(1,360 posts)That Trump will start closing down our Military Bases in all of the NATO countries, leaving everything, and only bringing home the Soldiers & Sailors...........(Trump already did that in Syria, to please Putin & Assad)
This will get Trump bonus points with Putin, as he will immediately invade all of those European NATO countries, and just take over the military bases, not having to spend anything.
It will also have an incredible fiscal effect on those countries economies......
not fooled
(6,575 posts)Who knows with these loons?
yardwork
(68,818 posts)Notice that despite the white supremacist talk that drives MAGA, only one of the other "core nations" is white majority - and I'm not even sure that Russia is a white majority population.
travelingthrulife
(4,160 posts)preserve our European heritage?
lapfog_1
(31,545 posts)seriously?
not Germany, the number 3 or 4 economy in the world.
Russian economy is roughly the same as Spain.
in terms of land mass, Canada and Brazil should be there.
Brother Buzz
(39,466 posts)Bev54
(13,125 posts)
IronLionZion
(50,679 posts)they might have to invade Poland or annex Austria to be allowed into the MAGA club. 
lapfog_1
(31,545 posts)Turkey or Hungary would be much more "MAGA" And then there is North Korea
mahina
(20,288 posts)We are under the control of crazy people, hopefully very briefly.
Heartbreaking.
thought crime
(1,110 posts)blm
(114,404 posts)
bronxiteforever
(11,038 posts)grovel before the great leaders. May the cowards, thieves and traitors of this rotten administration fuck off into the infernal regions.
WmChris
(572 posts)Oligarchy world control by the rich now codified and out for approval by the ruling classes of annotated power brokers.
PatrickforB
(15,321 posts)The same thing we do every day, Pinky. Try and take over the world!
ChicagoTeamster
(335 posts)Poland is aligned with Germany, UK, France, Sweden, Finland. Austria's new government is a centrist coalition excluding the far-right FPÖ, formed by the center-right People's Party (ÖVP), Social Democrats (SPÖ), and liberal Neos. The far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) won the election but failed to form a government and the opposing parties formed a coalition. Japan will not side with China or vice versa. China and India cooperate economically only as much as needed to pursue their needs but there is a history of deep mistrust and occasional conflict. Whoever dreamed up the Core 5 countries is looking for countries having highly homogeneous societies and probably believe they will install fascist governments in those countries. They're obviously delusional.
muriel_volestrangler
(105,430 posts)to install the far right parties there.
Japan did seem an odd inclusion - while their governments are generally right wing, they don't have the authoritarianism of the others. Perhaps it's a way of justifying Russia in the "C5" - populations over 100 million, and reasonable size economies (obviously Trumpism would find no place for somewhere like Nigeria, or Brazil with its frequent left wing governments).
Or maybe the criteria is "no significant immigration"? That fits with the Strategy's obsession with Great Replacement Theory, thinking that the main EU countries are going to be "alien" thanks to immigration. Of course, the USA was formed by immigration, but Trumpism is all about "no more immigration apart from whites, and anyone already here and non-white must shut up and let the whites run things".
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(132,017 posts)What do we do about them?
Bayard
(28,242 posts)How does, China, Japan, India, and the U.S., "Make Europe Great Again?" MEGA.....hmmm. Moron Abhorrently Grifts Again?
Looks like more isolationism. We need NATO.
thought crime
(1,110 posts)3825-87867
(1,768 posts)Turn the world into a Business run by a (More) select few with the goal of creating a Corporate (non-Democratic) World that will follow Corporate Rules with Corporate Penalties for ANY Corporate or Public disobedience. We will be run by those who have little to no ethics, compassion or feelings toward those, in their beliefs, "lower in status" and only driven by money and greed.
And it will be different from what we have now. There will be full control over everyone. There will be only select male members of the ruling class and they will control everything that's done or to be done. And while they will claim it will be just like running a business, the hidden item is rigid control to whatever they want...until some of the "lesser" members start getting shafted by the bigger ones. Then things start all over. Meanwhile the rest suffer.
Oh, and they are planning on enacting Malthusian Edicts. That's why they are planning to starve out billions, put the younger, more able ones doing the physical work like producing food and creating slave labor (except it will be called somehting else so the stupid among them don't understand) while those already at the top decide whom to add to their ranks and those who should...fail.
They will try to ride in on so-called Christian Values for a while, but then we will see what "crime" has currently been hidden and will now be accepted and even legal by these elites for the elite...maybe even more Epstein Islands?
Heartless, totally uncaring about or for common people, they simply are greedy, soulless business people.
By the way, all white in some countries - all brown in some, yellow in another...and women in their proper places regardless of color.
And when America becomes ALL WHITE, the "lesser whites" who supported Trump, who think they will reap the benefits of suppoorting the new masters and the new overlords are gonna discover they don't fit in the Heritage scheme. Too late for them. Too stupid to understand why. Too bad.
Been fun, see you all next life.
BidenRocks
(2,659 posts)and raise you Nuclear Annihilation.
Don't go away MAD!
Now sit down!
surfered
(10,864 posts)orangecrush
(27,928 posts)Last edited Wed Dec 10, 2025, 11:04 PM - Edit history (1)
muriel_volestrangler
(105,430 posts)Hate immigrants, admire Putin, like authoritarianism ...
area51
(12,546 posts)except for their universal healthcare system, which they don't want us peasants to have.
orangecrush
(27,928 posts)Of a new Russian empire.
Red Mountain
(2,233 posts)they're not going to splinter the EU for whatever short term gain they can promise. New election cycle and no Democrat will go along with it.
This reads like it was written by a Russian.
India will never be ready. Russia is living in the past.
Japan is a player but faces a demographic time bomb.
It's China, the US and the EU to the extent that they can pull together and function as a single unit.
The others will pick the winner......and right now it's not looking like the US.
Bev54
(13,125 posts)Lucky Luciano
(11,810 posts)The one child policy will becoming home to roost in the next 50-60 years.
Joinfortmill
(19,800 posts)
stage left
(3,181 posts)I'm an American, not a Russian.
wiggs
(8,620 posts)benefit of fewer and fewer. A corrupt sea change that all but the oligarchs and dictators should be worried about.
Everything the WH is doing leads toward this kind of global reorganization.
BurnDoubt
(1,338 posts)
aggiesal
(10,498 posts)Now we know where Mierda47 is taking us.
Bev54
(13,125 posts)some Asian countries decide on a new base currency to counter BRICS and the US dollar. I think they are pretty close to doing so even now.
Rob H.
(5,774 posts)That just sounds like white nationalism with extra steps.
muriel_volestrangler
(105,430 posts)It's basically saying non-white immigrants aren't good enough to run any country, and that it's only going to support European countries with low non-white populations ("restoration" meaning "they should kick some non-white people out" ).
WestMichRad
(2,868 posts)They are resource limited, on a whole must import a lot of their food, and are facing as difficult a demographic imbalance (aging population) as anyone. Being politically boxed out too would be tragic.
slightlv
(7,254 posts)are any better than Europe's. We have madmen in the government, complete unaffordability of the basics of life for everyone but the super rich, and soon to be an entire world ready to bomb us off the continent. Try as I might, I can't fault them.
TubbersUK
(1,510 posts)slightlv
(7,254 posts)with the rest of the administration behind bars before this NDAA can ever be undertaken. There's a lot to the NDAA that, while a guidepost for the military and security, end up being more "advise" than "consent." I'll never forget running into the Zombie Apocalypse one year in the NDAA!
blm
(114,404 posts)
C_U_L8R
(48,721 posts)India and Japan could be a sweet digestif for the triumvirate, after they devour the rest of the world.
Or so these clowns think. This ketamine-fueled fantasy could go ridiculously wrong.
Bev54
(13,125 posts)
ancianita
(42,727 posts)You might want to read more about the state of Japan's economic wealth.
Japan ranks highly for competitiveness and economic freedom. The country attracted 36.9 million international tourists in 2024, and was ranked eleventh in the world in 2019 for inbound tourism.
The 2024 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report ranked Japan third in the world out of 117 countries. Its international tourism receipts in 2019 amounted to $46.1 billion.
The high-speed Shinkansen (bullet trains) that connect major cities are known for their safety and punctuality.
There are 280 airports in Japan as of 2025. The largest domestic airport, Haneda Airport in Tokyo, was Asia's second-busiest airport in 2019. The Keihin and Hanshin superport hubs are among the largest in the world, at 7.98 and 5.22 million TEU respectively as of 2017
Relative to gross domestic product, Japan's research and development budget is the sixth or seventh highest in the world, with 907,400 researchers sharing a 22-trillion-yen research and development budget as of 2023.
Japan has the second highest number of researchers in science and technology per capita in the world with 14 per 1000 employees.
Japan has produced twenty-two Nobel laureates in either physics, chemistry or medicine, and three Fields medalists.
Japan leads the world in robotics production and use, supplying 38% of the world's 2024 total.
Japan has a large industrial capacity and is home to some of the "largest and most technologically advanced producers of motor vehicles, machine tools, steel and nonferrous metals, ships, chemical substances, textiles, and processed foods".[85] Japan's industrial sector makes up approximately 27.5% of its GDP. The country's manufacturing output is the fourth highest in the world as of 2023.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan
All told ... No, Japan is not on the verge of national bankruptcy. Most economists and officials agree that an imminent financial meltdown is not a risk for the sovereign government.
While Japan has the highest national debt-to-GDP ratio in the developed world (over 260%), a financial crisis has been avoided due to the unique structure of its debt:
Domestic ownership:
Over 90% of Japanese government bonds (JGBs) are held by domestic institutions, including more than half by the Bank of Japan itself. This means there is a low risk of a sudden, large-scale withdrawal of foreign capital that could trigger a crisis.
Yen-denominated debt:
All government bonds are denominated in the Japanese yen, giving the central bank greater control over monetary policy.
Current Economic Challenges
Despite stability at the sovereign level, Japan faces several significant economic issues and structural problems:
High corporate bankruptcies: The number of corporate bankruptcies, particularly among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), has reached an 11-year high due to rising costs, the weak yen, inflation, and severe labor shortages.
Aging population: Japan's rapidly aging and shrinking population is a major structural challenge, leading to a deficit of workers and increased social security costs, which strains public finances.
Household debt: Personal bankruptcies are also rising as households struggle with increasing debt, higher interest rates, and the rising cost of living, with salaries remaining low compared to other G7 countries.
Fiscal policy concerns: There are growing doubts about how long the country can sustain its current spending path, and some analysts are concerned that a significant loosening of fiscal policy could pose a risk to its sovereign credit score.
So while there are significant domestic economic challenges and high levels of debt, the structure of Japan's debt prevents an immediate risk of national bankruptcy.
Bev54
(13,125 posts)The country is in serious financial difficulty and it will get worse with the aging population.
ancianita
(42,727 posts)the fallout of the current trade war the felon started, a lot of countries are feeling economic disruption, including ours. Japan and other countries have minor economic problems made much worse by the felon and his oligarch backers intent on causing the current global economic, diplomatic, political, and military disruption. Their self-serving US National (IN)Security Strategy run by these so-called 5 "core" countries to run the world puts in writing their anti-democratic intent.
Overall, regardless of any difference you have on the details re Japan, I'm with Joinfortmill in saying fuck this shit.
Kid Berwyn
(22,609 posts)Traitor.
yellow dahlia
(4,156 posts)Evil empire in the making.
Trueblue Texan
(4,129 posts)IronLionZion
(50,679 posts)If the US takes Greenland and lets Russia have their way with Eastern Europe, we can't really say anything about China taking Taiwan.
a bit surprised by the others. 
Maybe they'll allow Europe into the club if they elect far right leaders? India has a far right leader so that kind of makes sense.
blue-wave
(4,805 posts)WWIII. Who needs the world at peace anyway?
SKKY
(12,735 posts)It's all about power. Pure and simple.
Mr. Sparkle
(3,584 posts)They have placed their cards on the table and shown us who they are.
lonely bird
(2,685 posts)Russia is fucked.
The PRC is facing a demographic problem.
Poland and Hungary are meaningless beyond their Reich Wing bullshit.
Republicans are destroying not just this country but as much of the world as they can.
bluedigger
(17,375 posts)This whole thing is bonkers.
Ford_Prefect
(8,487 posts)
Dan
(4,920 posts)Most of the world realizes that Trump is a fucking idiot. So, the real question is - how would the rest of the world decide on the division of the United States after they would have fleeced Trump.
jfz9580m
(16,427 posts)LudwigPastorius
(13,995 posts)Trump, doing God's* work.
*his God, Vladimir Putin, that is
Bluetus
(2,110 posts)In this new alignment, Trump thinks he gets everything in the western hemisphere, including Venezuela and Greenland.
DallasNE
(7,942 posts)The following really sums it up.
“any other so-called ‘versions’ are leaked by people distant from the President who, like this ‘reporter,’ have no idea what they are talking about.’ ”
This is appeasement that Putin would take full advantage of. I guess Trump is dumb enough to think that Putin would share the bounty with him in appreciation of Trump's help. He doesn't understand people like Putin.
muriel_volestrangler
(105,430 posts)Reform wasn’t alone in its cowardice. Kemi Badenoch, that proud defender of British democracy, was also nowhere to be seen. Nor indeed were any of her shadow cabinet. Instead it was left to Mike Wood, a shadow junior minister of such little importance that even he doesn’t have a clue what his job is meant to be, to speak for the Tory party.
In what may well be a first and last outing at the dispatch box for an urgent question, Mike managed to completely miss the point. At first he didn’t even seem to have grasped that the question was about the US security strategy. Instead he waffled on about the Tories promising to increase defence spending to 3%. No wonder the few MPs that were in the chamber looked baffled. And then when he did get to the strategy, he offered the remarkable observation that it was really all about China. People who were concerned about Russia were being neurotically conspiratorial. Almost as though the Tories were also going out of their way to appease The Donald.
Not to be left out, the Labour frontbench were also guilty of being absent without leave. Western’s urgent question had originally been directed at the chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, but Darren Jones was nowhere to be seen. So the short straw went to Seema Malhotra, the lowest-ranked minister in the Foreign Office, to do the honours for the government. She looked miserable throughout.
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Then a few caveats. All done in a mumble. Hoping that no one in the US embassy was listening and would report back to the president. We did have a slightly different perspective on some things, she said almost inaudibly. But then again, too few to mention. It took a while but after a bit of pressing, she got round to saying that Sadiq Khan was doing a decent job. Though the president hadn’t in any way been racist in calling him a horrible, disgusting man. Would this do? Could she sit down now?
It was left to Western himself, with contributions from the Labour MPs Chi Onwurah, Liam Byrne and the Lib Dems Calum Miller and Bobby Dean to get to the heart of the matter: there was nothing remotely normal about the US security strategy. It was all there in black and white. A threat to destabilise European democracies. Support for far-right nationalists. Withdrawal from Nato. Support for Russia. It was a moment of existential crisis for Europe. It was time to wake up. When the US president says this stuff, you had better believe him. Just choosing to ignore it all, hoping things will work out if you don’t rock the boat was an abrogation of responsibility.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/11/asked-about-the-donalds-national-security-strategy-the-commons-was-remarkable-for-its-absences
The Labour leadership needs to find a backbone. They don't have to go the full "he's a corrupt, criminal, racist rapist"; just stand up for their own country, and for democracy and liberalism, in its widest sense. Labour backbenchers can do it. It's this cringing that enables Trump and his fellow democracy-haters.