In the new National Security Strategy, US President Donald Trump sets as one of his priorities the strengthening of right-wing populist forces in Europe and the transformation of the European Union into a "group of sovereign countries".
In his new National Security Strategy, the president of the United States of America Donald tramp He devoted a special chapter to Europe. The message basically reads: we need to create a gap in to the European Union, weaken it by strengthening anti-liberal patriotic forces and then place it on new ideological foundations modeled on his MAGA movement.
The document presents an apocalyptic, almost caricatured image of the Old Continent and even insinuates direct US interference in the internal politics of European countries, writes the German "Spiegel".
In addition to the "economic downturn", Trump recognizes the "real and increasingly visible danger of the collapse of civilization" in Europe. And why? Because of the actions of the European Union in the direction of "denying political freedoms" and because Berlin or Paris "censor media freedoms and persecute political opponents". This refers to the resistance of EU institutions and national governments to the strengthening of the extreme, populist, nationalist and racist right.
In this sense, US Vice President JD Vance, for example, called on established German parties to enter into a coalition with the right-wing and in some elements neo-Nazi Alternative for Germany, which, despite its growth in Germany, is still taboo for now.
At the same time, according to Trump's security strategy, migration policy is being pushed in the EU, which, along with a dramatically low birth rate, is changing the blood cells of the continent. Forecast: "If current trends continue, Europe will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less."
Trump's idea is that Europe should be organized as a "group of sovereign nations", which is a blow to the EU's efforts to grow even more. The priority of US European policy will be to "resist the current course within European nations."
"Spiegel" asks the question: does Trump think that his government is directly interfering in the politics of certain European countries? And if, how?
Based on this document, it is quite clear why Hungary under the leadership of Viktor Orbán is the main European ally of the Trump administration.
The only positive thing in this document for Europe is that Trump listed it as the third most important foreign policy priority. In first place are North and South America, and in second place is Asia...
Trump's narrative is likely to resonate with most of Europe's far-right parties, whose election programs are primarily based on criticism of the EU, demands to limit migration from Muslim and non-European countries and efforts to reverse their countries' apparent decline, Politico reports.
European Commission spokeswoman Paula Pinho told reporters that she was aware of "the publication of this report" but had not had "time to examine it," adding that the EU executive "will definitely present its position on this in due course."
In a short departure from the discussion about the "civilization erasure" of Europe, it is also mentioned war in Ukraine and it is emphasized that it is in America's interest to stop him, among other things, to restore "strategic stability" with Russia.
The US administration, however, claims that "unstable minority governments" in Europe have "unrealistic expectations about that war" and are hindering the peace process. Such assessments were published at a time when European leaders are warning that Washington could "betray" Ukraine during peace talks with Moscow.
Contrary to NATO's open-door policy for candidate countries, the US administration wants the priority to be "ending that perception and preventing NATO from remaining an ever-expanding alliance."
The document is a rare official explanation of Trump's foreign policy worldview, and such strategies, which presidents typically release once a term, could help shape how parts of the U.S. government allocate budgets and set policy priorities.
In opening remarks, Trump called the strategy "a road map to ensure that America remains the greatest and most successful nation in human history and the home of freedom on earth."
The Trump administration acknowledges that "Europe remains strategically and culturally important to the United States," but its views on the European continent are consistent with the administration's past negative public statements, when, for example, Vice President D.J. D. Vance shocked the political elite at the Munich Security Conference in February by attacking Europe over migration and free speech.
Source: Spiegel/Politiko
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