Contrary to what globalists are saying, the Trump administration does not “hate Europe.” It hates what Europe has become under decades of failed leadership. The Trump National Securityy Strategy (NSS) articulates a massive shift in US policy, one that has been emerging in the second Trump administration. The NSS casts aside the globalist neoliberalism that has defined U.S. foreign policy for the past several decades. No more ‘free trade’ that wrecks the American middle class and industrial base. No more writing endless cheques for European defense. And no more “lashing American policy to a network of international institutions, some of which are driven by outright anti-Americanism and many by a transnationalism that explicitly seeks to dissolve individual state sovereignty.” Is that Mr. Soros in the corner, crying into his caviar? Good. Cry more. The Trump NSS comes out unapologetically for “the sovereign rights of nations,” and encourages other nations to embrace sovereignty for themselves too, “against the sovereignty-sapping incursions of the most intrusive transnational organizations.” Somebody hand von der Leyen a box of tissues.
The NSS identifies mass migration as a chief threat to sovereignty. “In countries throughout the world, mass migration has strained domestic resources, increased violence and other crime, weakened social cohesion, distorted labor markets, and undermined national security,” it reads. “The era of mass migration must end.” The document also comes out powerfully in defense of free speech and freedom of religion, both in the United States and among America’s allies. It could not be clearer: “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.”
