"Europe is on a trajectory towards nothing less than civilisational erasure, the Trump administration claims in its extraordinary new National Security Strategy, a document that blames European integration and activities of the European Union that undermine political liberty and sovereignty for some of the continent's deepest problems. Everybody should have seen it coming after Washington's humiliating 28-point plan for Ukraine."
"In a 2023 policy paper, Getting Strategic Deprioritization Right, Colby and his co-authors laid out the logic behind reducing US commitments in Europe and concentrating resources elsewhere. The starting premise is clear. As one contributor puts it, the United States does not have, and does not plan to develop, the ability to fight and win major wars in Europe and Asia simultaneously. China, they argue, is the decisive theatre, not Europe, and US attention and assets"
US National Security Strategy frames Europe as facing existential decline and attributes deep continental problems to European integration and EU actions that weaken political liberty and sovereignty. The Strategy signals a transactional, ideologically driven American approach that reduces military commitments to Europe while encouraging European states to assume primary responsibility for their defense. The MAGA right and influential figures press for troop withdrawals and a hemispheric focus. Prominent strategists argue the United States cannot fight major wars in Europe and Asia simultaneously, designate China as the decisive theatre, and recommend concentrating resources toward the Indo-Pacific.
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