The Trump administration has published a national security strategy that warns Europe faces 'civilisational erasure' within two decades due to migration and EU integration, and explicitly backs far-right nationalist parties on the continent. The 33-page document, signed by President Donald Trump, argues the United States must 'cultivate resistance' to Europe's current trajectory.
The strategy describes Europe as in economic decline but with 'real problems' including EU activities undermining sovereignty, migration policies 'transforming the continent', censorship, and loss of national identities. It appears to endorse the racist 'great replacement' conspiracy theory, asserting that several European countries risk becoming 'majority non-European' and that the continent will be 'unrecognisable in 20 years or less' if current trends continue.
Germany's foreign minister, Johann Wadephul, responded by affirming the US remains a vital security ally but insisting that 'questions of freedom of expression or the organisation of our free societies' do not require outside advice. 'We see ourselves as being able to discuss and debate these matters entirely on our own in the future,' he said.
The document also calls for Europe to take primary responsibility for its own defence and for opening European markets to US goods. It praises the 'growing influence of patriotic European parties' and encourages Washington's political allies in Europe to promote a 'revival of spirit'. The Trump administration has previously hosted senior figures from Germany's far-right Alternative für Deutschland at the White House.
