cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/13300

“This intellectual decline has reached its lowest level in the persons of the political leaders in Europe. They have led this once mighty continent straight into a morass of economic, cultural and military decline, reducing it to a state of complete impotence.

I wrote those lines in an article entitled, The meaning of Donald Trump: a Marxist analysis, which we published on 21 March 2025. They accurately describe the situation that exists at the present time. I do not have to change a single word or comma.

The reason for the present article was the publication of the US National Security document and Pete Hegseth's speech, which is basically the same thing.

This has confirmed everything we’ve been saying, even before Trump came to power, concerning his fundamental strategy. We wrote about this extensively twelve months ago, and I refer you to this material. The situation has moved on since then, and has now reached a decisive turning point. But the basic strategy has not changed.

Trump describes the document as a “roadmap” to ensure the US remains “the greatest and most successful nation in human history”. So far, so alarming. But this was just the preliminary appetiser. The main dish was yet to be served. It was the cause of a very serious outbreak of acid indigestion among a certain class of politicians.

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