Trump's strategy weakens alliances, benefitting China and Russia

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President Donald Trump’s new national security strategy will serve U.S. interests poorly. The strategy is far too deferential to Russia, unnecessarily hostile to America’s oldest allies in Europe, in contradiction with recent U.S. actions in the Pacific, and indirectly beneficial to China.