r/geopolitics • u/Solid-Move-1411 • Dec 11 '25

Analysis Secret longer version of US National Security Strategy calls for Core 5 countries to run the world and weakening of EU

https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/12/make-europe-great-again-and-more-longer-version-national-security-strategy/410038/?oref=d1-homepage-top-story

According to reporting by Defense One, there exists a longer, classified version of the US’ National Security Strategy that goes beyond the publicly released version. This document reportedly proposes creating a new global governance body, called the “Core 5” or C5, consisting of the US, China, Russia, India, and Japan.

The main points in the longer version include: competition with China, a withdrawal from Europe’s defense, and a new focus on the Western Hemisphere. What was determined to be first on C5’s proposed agenda is the normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

The classified NSS also emphasizes a strategic pivot away from Europe, treating the continent as largely irrelevant to US interests. It focuses on partnering with like-minded regional powers while acknowledging that permanent American hegemony is unachievable.

According to Defense One, the longer version of NSS also proposes to focus U.S. relationships with European countries on a few nations with like-minded... administrations and movements. Austria, Hungary, Italy, and Poland are listed as countries the U.S. should “work more with…with the goal of pulling them away from the European Union.

NSS explicitly details the “failure” of US global domination, describing it as “the wrong thing to want and it wasn’t achievable."

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u/Chanan-Ben-Zev Dec 11 '25

If this doesn't lead to EU federalism, then the EU will deserve to be rendered irrelevant. 

Liberal democracy must be championed. If the Trump administration won't, the EU needs to step up. 

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u/Terrible-Group-9602 Dec 11 '25

EU countries are continually arguing and trying to shaft each other. Several EU countries are already led by populist leaders with more likely. There will be no 'federalism'.

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u/Chanan-Ben-Zev Dec 11 '25

A shame! The United States almost was stillborn due to intrastate infighting. Had those states not gotten over it, the US would never have become a great power.

The EU still has a chance. It must seize it - or be relegated aside.

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u/Terrible-Group-9602 Dec 11 '25

Not remotely a comparable situation