Geopolitics
The Creed Swap: How America's New Civilizational Doctrine is Decoupling the Atlantic Alliance
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue, demanded Europe stop 'moralizing' about rules and shared values, revealing a deeper US shift from a liberal, multilateral creed to a nationalist, civilizational one that frames European proceduralism as weakness and decline. This is a stunning act of ideological imperialism, where the architect of the 'rules-based order' now punishes its disciples for their faith, seeking not just money but the very soul of its allies in a brazen attempt to impose a new, divisive global doctrine.
