Trump’s National Security Strategy & National Defense Strategy: “America First” Means Putting the US Ruling Elite Above All
An analysis piece by ILPS-US
Full analysis: https://tinyurl.com/ILPS-On-NSS-NDS
As an imperialist nation, the overall goal of the US is to retain its number one spot among imperialist powers by ensuring US monopoly capitalist interests. Each new administration lays out their National Security Strategy (NSS) as a program to set the direction, strategy and tactics they will carry out. The National Defense Strategy (NDS) then follows to lay out the implementation priorities carried out by its military-industrial complex.
The opportunity is ripe to grow the mass movement against US imperialist war. Across different classes, sectors and issues, people can be drawn into the struggle by linking the US’ neglect of people’s basic needs to the prioritization of war. Students are faced with limited options to continue paying for higher education or serving in the military or becoming ICE agents. Many education fields are also geared towards working for war profiteers or surveillance. Migrants are forced from their homelands as their countries are ravaged by US wars of aggression and corporate plunder. Workers experience the brunt of the economic crisis and have a central role to play in strengthening the anti-war movement in the US. We all have a stake in the fight and must work together – joining forces with people of faith working for peace, environmental groups concerned about the impacts of militarism, and more. By taking joint action around concrete demands to fight back against US militarism, the movement can build its strength and create even greater change.
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