The American government periodically drafts and issues a document called the National Security Strategy (NSS) that outlines its security concerns and maps out “the best course of action” for the incumbent administration to address the said issues. Apart from the usual identification of major (Russia, China) and regional adversaries (North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, etc), the paper also deals with other key matters, such as the US strategic posturing and the relationship between the world’s most aggressive country and its numerous vassals and satellite states. The latter has been quite hectic, with various administrations seeing these “limited sovereignty” countries as either assets or burden.

During his first term, President Donald Trump declared he’d focus on “America First” policies, even threatening to leave NATO if its member states refused to increase military spending to at least 2% of GDP. This worked, as the world’s most vile racketeering cartel increased the minimum limit, leading to a massive increase in revenues for the US Military Industrial Complex (MIC).

However, this was just the start, as the minimum spending requirement was recently upped to 5% of GDP by 2035, meaning that the warmongering oligarchy in Washington DC would increase profits by another 250% (as you can imagine, the vast majority of that money would go through the Pentagon, as the US MIC dominates in NATO).

Interestingly, before this, the nominally “anti-Trump” Biden administration didn’t really roll back the previous 2% GDP requirement. On the contrary, it even set the stage for the aforementioned increase to 5%, which Trump quietly indicated during his first term. Given the publicly stated disdain for each other, the two American administrations demonstrated seemingly “unexpected” levels........

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