Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Tony Stark and Justin Mc return for Second Breakfast, live from NeurIPS 2025. In Part I, we break down the Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy (NSS).

Today, our conversation covers…

What a National Security Strategy is, and why they matter,

Controversial new inclusions in Trump’s NSS, including on Taiwan policy and the “reinvigoration of American spiritual and cultural health,”

How to reconcile the document’s ambitious vision for deterrence with the reality of Trump’s China policy,

The mixed signals this NSS sends to U.S. allies,

What Buffalo Wild Wings can teach us about competition with China.

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