THE KREMLIN welcomed President Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy (NSS), released on Dec. 4, 2025. It was dismissed by some as an example of more Trump rant but in light of his recent incursion into Venezuela, his strategy has to be taken seriously. The Kremlin said that the NSS is largely aligned with Russia’s own perceptions. It’s the first time that Moscow has so completely endorsed such a document from its Cold War enemy. It seems to me that Trump and Russian President Putin have struck a deal to divide up the globe: Trump will take the Americas and Russia will take back the 15 independent countries that fell out of Soviet control in 1991. At first glance, the strategy looks like the ravings of an unhinged megalomaniac. That’s what Globe and Mail columnist Konrad Yakabuski thought. He says we shouldn’t take Trump seriously; not when he goes from hawkish to dovish and back again with cheerful abandon. Why should we take him seriously? He says: “So, all the hyperventilating over Mr. Trump’s latest NSS is overdone. This is much more a MAGA rant than a serious foreign-policy blueprint. Nothing in it should come as a surprise to anyone … Continue reading CHARBONNEAU – Russia cheers Trump’s plan to control W. Hemisphere