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A Chaotic and Damaging Week for U.S. National Security and Foreign Relations

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Why It Matters: Trump, Vance, Hegseth, the Munich Security Conference, and Ending the Russia-Ukraine War

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Feb 15
Why It Matters: Trump, Vance, Hegseth, the Munich Security Conference, and Ending the Russia-Ukraine War

This post is focused on the foreign policy aspect of national security, reviewing Vance’s and Hegseth’s trips to Europe to meet with NATO and attend the Munich Security Conference.

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Hi there, welcome to Why It Matters.

I wanted to take a few minutes to reflect on this past week and maybe concentrate on the foreign policy aspects of it.

It continues to trouble me watching the weaponization of government.

The fact that is most Americans don't necessarily see the US government in action, the services it provides on a regular basis. We will see the absence of the services and the chaos being wrought by the Trump administration,

breaking down, removing professionals from Health and Human Services, from the NIH, National Institute of Health, our nuclear safety enterprises. It's really cross-cutting.

But I think this last week had a lot of foreign policy-related revelations about the direction of the Trump admini…

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