Arya News - The White House has published a new National Security Strategy, formally outlining Washington`s global security-related priorities. For the first time in recent memory, the document drops language characterizing Russia as a "threat", and rejects continued NATO expansion. But some observers remain skeptical.
The new strategy document offers criticism of NATO expansion and jettisons Russia’s longtime characterization as a ‘threat’ to US national security, but veteran geopolitical analyst Brian Berletic is critical of its broader potential implications.The new characterization of Russia is a signal of the US’s desire to “freeze the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, not end it,” Berletic believes.