America First in uniform: What NDS-2026 really means

The strategic importance of the Panama Canal, the Gulf of Mexico (renamed in the document as the ‘Gulf of America’) and Greenland is stressed. The strategy says Russia poses a threat not to the US or NATO as a whole but mainly to eastern NATO members, and that this threat is “persistent but manageable.” It argues that Russia’s power is often exaggerated, noting that Germany alone surpasses Russia economically in nominal US dollar GDP terms, and that NATO as a whole outweighs it many times over. One passage is especially dramatic, calling for a kind of national mobilization, comparing the needed industrial effort to those that underpinned US victories in the world wars and the Cold War.

Author: RT

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