"When are we going to get the message? I joked a few months back that, when it comes to Donald Trump, Europe needs to learn from Sex and the City's Miranda Hobbes and realise that He's just not that into you. After this past week, it's clear that understates the problem. Trump's America is not merely indifferent to Europe it's positively hostile to it. That has enormous implications for the continent and for Britain, which too many of our leaders still refuse to face."
"The depth of US hostility was revealed most explicitly in the new US national security strategy, or NSS, a 29-page document that serves as a formal statement of the foreign policy of the second Trump administration. There is much there to lament, starting with the sceptical quote marks that appear around the sole reference to climate change, but the most striking passages are those that take aim at Europe."
"The NSS worries that soon some European countries will become majority non-European, which can only be a euphemism for non-white. Any doubt on that score was dispelled by the rambling speech the president delivered in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, in which he mused on how the US only takes people from shithole countries such as Somalia, asking plaintively: Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden from Denmark?"
The Trump administration's new national security strategy portrays Europe as a primary concern, highlighting economic stagnation, censorship, political suppression, low birthrates and migration as risks of civilizational erasure. The strategy treats China and Russia with relatively less emphasis while focusing rhetorical force on Europe. The document casts demographic change in racialized terms, warning some countries could become majority non-European. The president's speech in Pennsylvania reinforced exclusionary preferences for Northern Europeans and disparaged migrants from countries like Somalia. The strategy also contains sceptical framing of climate change. These positions signal heightened US hostility toward Europe with implications for continental and British policy.
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