US Vice President JD Vance and Donald Trump at the White House, Washington, June 21, 2025. GETTY IMAGES VIA AFP
The split is final, pending the division of assets. That is how the publication of the national security strategy by the White House on Friday, December 5, appears from a transatlantic perspective. This edition of a standard exercise designed to formalize an administration's priorities and, more broadly, its worldview marks a historic rupture. Never before had an official document of this nature demonstrated such indifference toward America's adversaries and such disregard toward its traditional allies, especially those in Europe.
Just two and a half pages: that is the space allocated to Europe in the 30-page document. The continent, the strategy claims, will be "unrecognizable in 20 years or less" if current trends continue. "This economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure." The symptoms listed include falling birth rates, the loss of national identities, the suppression of political opposition, censorship of free speech, "regulatory suffocation," and above all, immigration. "Over the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades at the latest, certain NATO members will become majority non-European," the document asserts.
