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18 February 2026

We Own It, So We Can Break It

Standing next to Volodymyr Zelensky days before the Nicolás Maduro extraction, Donald Trump asserted, “we’re protected by a thing called the Atlantic Ocean.” His statement sounded at once naïve and antiquarian in a globalized world of cyberattacks and US worldwide presence. But it is part of the hemispheric charge moving his National Security Strategy 2025 away from the China-centric anxieties. The NSS provides keys to other elements of the administration’s foreign policy, including relations with China, Russia, and Europe; recovery of dusty spheres-of-influence and balance-of-power talk; and the focus on “Western civilization”.

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