The National Security Strategy Document Is a Clear Case of MAGA Defacement
- john raymond
- 15 hours ago
- 1 min read
The 2025 National Security Strategy was not born stupid. It almost certainly began life as a competent national-security draft—structured, sober, and largely correct in identifying real vulnerabilities: migration stress, NATO imbalance, industrial decline, Russian aggression, and the erosion of competence in governance.
That version made sense. Then someone in the White House got their hands on it and colored over the work like a child with a box of shiny new crayons.
You can still see the outlines of the original: border management, alliance reform, industrial policy, meritocracy. But what’s been scrawled on top is pure MAGA defacement—Trumpian self-worship and regime-security propaganda pretending to be strategy. Border enforcement becomes “The Era of Mass Migration Is Over,” a rallying cry for permanent siege politics.
Alliance reform mutates into the “Hague Commitment,” a fantasy 5-percent defense quota designed for future tantrums. Diplomacy becomes “Realignment Through Peace,” meaning whatever deal flatters Trump most. And “strategic stability with Russia” reads like permission for Putin to keep what he’s already stolen.
The result is a document that looks legitimate at first glance because the scaffolding beneath it was once real—but it has been vandalized. The experts wrote a policy sketch; the loyalists drew mustaches on it. What could have been a blueprint for American strength was defaced into a shrine for Trump’s ego and a smokescreen for his service to Moscow.