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Pseudo-science, race and the US National Security Strategy 2025

19 December 2025 Mike Scrafton

Threads of former dark episodes in America’s past are woven through its 2025 National Security Strategy. Unmistakable echoes of anti-democratic elitism, race theories, and eugenics. America’s allies should be alarmed at the vision promised to be imposed by strength and direct interference.

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On its current trajectory, no settlement outcome in Ukraine bodes well for Europe

24 November 2025 Mike Scrafton

Russia will not be defeated, weakened, or isolated in the way previously assumed by the Europeans. Without a rapid reappraisal of its Biden-era strategic policy choices, Europe may be set on an irreversible course to a very dangerous place.

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It’s the company you keep – Rules of Engagement and the future of ANZUS

21 November 2025

The Gordian knots – security guarantees and borders for Ukraine

5 October 2025

Trump’s romantic nationalism and the direction of US foreign policy

30 September 2025

A European farce de réassurance

16 September 2025

Hypocrisy undermines international law

9 September 2025

In the Rimlands America’s hegemony is receding

12 August 2025

A requiem for the Indo-Pacific Strategy: Trump’s Arctic pivot

13 March 2025

Trump’s pre-modern approach to Sovereignty must be resisted

25 February 2025

Trump’s quick deal with Putin could reshape the global order

19 September 2024

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UKRAINE

  • On its current trajectory, no settlement outcome in Ukraine bodes well for Europe
    24 November 2025
  • The Gordian knots – security guarantees and borders for Ukraine
    5 October 2025
  • A European farce de réassurance
    16 September 2025
  • Hypocrisy undermines international law
    9 September 2025
  • In the Rimlands America’s hegemony is receding
    12 August 2025
  • Trump’s quick deal with Putin could reshape the global order
    19 September 2024
  • The aimlessness of the G7 on Ukraine only delays the inevitable
    20 June 2024
  • Postwar Ukraine will pose the hardest problems
    13 March 2023
  • Tanks for Ukraine won’t bring war-ending negotiations any closer
    27 January 2023
  • After Ukraine a fractured and unravelling global order will confront governments
    10 May 2022
  • Ethics and war: the Ukrainian tragedy
    2 May 2022
  • US National Security and Ukraine: What’s the connection?
    19 January 2020

About Mike Scrafton

Mike Scrafton is a regularly-published writer on Australian and international affairs. A former government senior executive, ministerial adviser and consultant, Mike now combines travelling, research and writing – with a particular focus on current issues in defence and strategic policy, and responses to climate change. Read more about Mike here.

Disclaimer

Mike is an independent writer and derives no income from his writing. He has no current association with any commercial or profit-making organisation, and does not endorse the products or services of any business entity.

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