"The Trump administration's new National Security Strategy (NSS) depicts a Europe on the brink of collapse. Its malaise, the document stresses, is not just about Russian threats or economic stagnation; rather, Europe risks losing its identity, amidst falling birthrates, rising migration, and the alleged silencing of right-wing dissidents. For this, Washington especially blames the European Union, said to "undermine political liberty and sovereignty." Still, all is not lost."
"The United States, both "sentimentally attached" to Europe and in need of stable allies, can cultivate "resistance to Europe's current trajectory within European nations." Washington draws optimism from the rise of "patriotic"-that is, right-wing-parties around the EU and promises to build up allies in the "healthy nations of Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe." Overall, the NSS internalizes Washington's pivot toward the "Western Hemisphere" as the post-Cold War "unipolar moment" wanes."
The NSS depicts Europe as on the brink of collapse, citing falling birthrates, rising migration, and the silencing of right-wing dissidents. The Strategy assigns particular blame to the European Union, accusing it of undermining political liberty and sovereignty. The United States remains sentimentally attached to Europe and seeks stable allies while aiming to cultivate resistance to Europe's current trajectory within European nations. Washington cites the rise of "patriotic" (right-wing) parties as a source of optimism and pledges to build up allies in Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe. The NSS signals a U.S. pivot toward the Western Hemisphere and treats the EU more as a regional problem than a peer.
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