"I bring that up today in response to the Trump administration's 33-page National Security Strategy, released early this month. It has been widely noted that at a time when our geopolitical rivalry with Russia and China is more heated than at any other time since the Cold War and Moscow and Beijing are more and more closely aligned against America the Trump 2025 national security doctrine barely mentions these two geopolitical challengers."
"While the report surveys U.S. interests across the globe, what intrigues me most about it is how it talks about our European allies and the European Union. It cites activities by our sister European democracies that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence."
"Should present trends continue, it goes on, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less. Indeed, the strategy paper warns, unless our European allies elect more patriotic nationalist parties, committed to stemming immigration, Europe will face civilizational erasure. Unstated but implied is that we will judge you not by the quality of your democracy but by the stringency by which you stem the migration flow from Muslim countries to Europe's south."
The Trump administration's 33-page National Security Strategy scarcely mentions Russia and China despite heightened geopolitical rivalry and closer Moscow-Beijing alignment with America. The strategy focuses on European allies and the European Union, citing democratic erosion, migration-driven societal strain, censorship, suppression of opposition, plummeting birthrates, and loss of national identity. The document warns Europe could be unrecognizable within 20 years unless more patriotic nationalist parties committed to stemming immigration are elected. The paper implies U.S. judgment of allies will hinge on immigration control rather than democratic quality, framing the administration's priority as domestic cultural conflict over external rivals.
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