“Once the USA officially pulls the plug on Asia.”
“What gives you the impression that that is going to occur?”
It’s just a recognition of reality, at this point.
From your referenced article :
The shift “doesn’t seem aligned with President Trump’s hawkish views on China at all,”
It’s good that we are filling a gap by placing focus on the homeland. But that doesn’t mean we are abandoning allies or throwing out the concept which has been in place since WWII that we ignore the rise of tyrants in other parts of the world at our peril.
This ‘draft’ paper article says nothing about abandoning that strategy. Only that an area previously thought to not need emphasis now needs it.
Ill leave it there until we see the final copy of the NSS after Hegseth and the president have had their chance to redline it.
Oh, and ‘unattainable’ deterrence against China? Thats someone’s opinion. Yours? I didn’t see that in the reference either.