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December 2025 marks the formal end of the American Century’s defining alliance.
— Weiterlesen substack.com/home/post/p-180875042

I. THE REVELATION BENEATH THE RHETORIC

On December 5, 2025, Reuters published an exclusive report that will be studied in war colleges and diplomatic academies for generations. Pentagon officials, speaking to European delegations in Washington, delivered an ultimatum: Europe must assume “the majority of NATO’s conventional defense capabilities, from intelligence to missiles, by 2027.” Failure to comply would result in the United States withdrawing from NATO defense coordination mechanisms.

The story was explosive. But the real revelation required reading what was absent.

The 2027 deadline does not appear anywhere in the official 2025 National Security Strategy document released the previous day. This gap between the formal strategy and the Pentagon’s private communications exposes something far more significant than transatlantic burden-sharing disputes. It reveals a fracture within the American government itself—and suggests the 2027 ultimatum may represent the views of specific Pentagon officials rather than consolidated administration policy. (…)