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By Jeffrey Sachs
The president’s latest National Security Strategy memorandum treats the freedom to coerce others as the essence of US sovereignty, writes Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs.
| Eminent Columbia University professor of economics, with longstanding connections to the UN and other international bodies, so I suppose this opinion was inevitable. |
It is an ominous document that will—if allowed to stand—come back to haunt the United States.
THE 2025 NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY (NSS) recently released by President Donald Trump presents itself as a blueprint for renewed American strength. It is dangerously misconceived in four ways.
First, the NSS is anchored in grandiosity: the belief that the United States enjoys unmatched supremacy in every key dimension of power.
Second, it is based on a starkly Machiavellian view of the world, treating other nations as instruments to be manipulated for American advantage.
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