The Trump administration has warned that Europe faces the “stark prospect of civilizational erasure” and has pledged support for like‑minded “patriotic” parties across the continent.
This statement appears in a new National Security Strategy that sets out Washington’s global priorities and argues that America’s goal should be “to help Europe correct its current trajectory” over the coming decades in an unprecedented gesture of interference with domestic European politics.
What Trump Administration says about Europe
In a section titled “Promoting European Greatness”, the strategy portrays Europe as on course to become “unrecognizable” because of migration policies it claims erode national identities.
Without naming specific movements, it urges the United States to “cultivate resistance” by backing parties that oppose migration and promote nationalism, a description that fits several right‑wing populist parties, including Reform UK in Great Britain and Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD), which German intelligence has classified as right-wing extremist.
“In everything we do, we are putting America First,” Donald Trump writes in the foreword, calling the strategy a “road map” to keep the United States the “greatest and most successful nation in human history.”
The document criticises the European Union and other “transnational bodies,” as it refers to the Union, for allegedly undermining liberty and sovereignty, claiming they censor speech and marginalise political opposition. It hails the rise of “patriotic European parties” as a source of “great optimism”.
Europe pushes back
European officials have reacted sharply to this direct American interference in their affairs. Germany’s foreign minister, Johann Wadephul, said Berlin did not “believe that we need to get advice here from any country or party,” insisting that questions of free speech and Germany’s liberal order are domestic matters.
Brando Benifei, an Italian member of the European Parliament, called the document a “frontal attack on the European Union” and “totally unacceptable”, accusing it of “extreme, shocking phrases” and veiled calls for election interference.
Analysts note that the text includes elements of the far-right “Great Replacement Theory”, an ultra-nationalist conspiracy theory about the deliberate replacement of white populations by non‑white immigrants in the West.
The text also urges Washington to “end the perception, and prevent the reality, of NATO as a perpetually expanding alliance”, language seen as close to President Vladimir Putin’s rhetoric.
European think‑tank figures warn the document could strain trans‑Atlantic ties and embolden the far right across Europe. Some politicians, such as Italian senator Carlo Calenda, have branded Trump an “enemy of Europe” and “an enemy of democracy”, while Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban, has placed himself as Trump’s closest ally within the EU, supporting his approach and strategy.
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