"On the same day that Donald Trump received his made-to-order peace prize from his newest pal, Fifa president Johnny Infantino, his administration published an equally gaudy national security strategy. The relatively short document oozes Trump and Trumpism. It starts out with the typically modest claim that the president has brought our nation and the world back from the brink of catastrophe and disaster."
"The document espouses an aggressive form of foreign-policy interference in which the US explicitly sets itself the goal of promoting European greatness. Its language could have been directly lifted from Viktor Orban's speeches during the so-called refugee crisis of 2015-16: We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilisational self-confidence. Even more ominously, the document claims that Europe's economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilisational erasure."
The US national security strategy adopts explicitly Trumpist rhetoric, claiming the president rescued the nation and world from catastrophe. It advocates aggressive foreign-policy interference aimed at promoting European greatness and preserving European civilisational identity. The strategy echoes far-right European themes by blaming the EU and migration policies for societal change, censorship, political suppression, declining birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence. The strategy warns that, if trends continue, Europe could be unrecognisable within two decades, with some NATO members becoming majority non-European and consequently weaker economically and militarily. The language draws directly on decades of far-right ideology and propaganda.
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