WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s latest “National Security Strategy” is slamming European countries for their environmental and anti-free-speech policies and vowing US support for “resistance” aimed at turning the continent around.
“We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence, and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation,” reads the Trump-signed document, posted online Friday.
“We will oppose elite-driven, anti-democratic restrictions on core liberties in Europe, the Anglosphere, and the rest of the democratic world, especially among our allies,” the report says.
“We reject the disastrous ‘climate change’ and ‘Net Zero’ ideologies that have so greatly harmed Europe, threaten the United States, and subsidize our adversaries.”
The report, which typically dwells on US adversaries, warned Europe’s trajectory as weakening the NATO alliance.
“American officials have become used to thinking about European problems in terms of insufficient military spending and economic stagnation. There is truth to this, but Europe’s real problems are even deeper,” the document says.
“Continental Europe has been losing share of global GDP — down from 25[%] in 1990 to 14[%] today — partly owing to national and transnational regulations that undermine creativity and industriousness. But this economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure.
“The larger issues facing Europe include activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies 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.”
Trump-approved remedies listed in the report call for “cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations.”
