President Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy is outlined in a detailed 33-page report.
In addition to setting the priorities for the United States focus, the report details the Trump administration perspective on the world as broken down into specific regions. The report is a brutally honest review of the current state of geopolitical benefits, risks and threats as they pertain to vital U.S. interests.
In addition to outlining a critically renewed focus on the Western Hemisphere, the Trump administration also notes the practical position of Europe, as it pertains to NATO and dependency on the U.S.A.
In a brutally honest review of the situation, the Trump administration notes Europe is increasingly losing their own identity. The fear the Europeans express about being vulnerable to Russian strength is hypocritical, in the sense that in practical outcomes the EU is purposefully weakening itself and simultaneously demanding assistance against their own weakness.
[PAGE 25] – American officials have become used to thinking about European problems in terms of insufficient military spending and economic stagnation. There is truth to this, but Europe’s real problems are even deeper.
Continental Europe has been losing share of global GDP—down from 25 percent in 1990 to 14 percent today—partly owing to national and transnational regulations that undermine creativity and industriousness. But this economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure.
The larger issues facing Europe include activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence.
Should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less. As such, it is far from obvious whether certain European countries will have economies and militaries strong enough to remain reliable allies. Many of these nations are currently doubling down on their present path. We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence, and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation.
This lack of self-confidence is most evident in Europe’s relationship with Russia.
European allies enjoy a significant hard power advantage over Russia by almost every measure, save nuclear weapons. As a result of Russia’s war in Ukraine, European relations with Russia are now deeply attenuated, and many Europeans regard Russia as an existential threat.
Managing European relations with Russia will require significant U.S. diplomatic engagement, both to reestablish conditions of strategic stability across the Eurasian landmass, and to mitigate the risk of conflict between Russia and European states.
It is a core interest of the United States to negotiate an expeditious cessation of hostilities in Ukraine, in order to stabilize European economies, prevent unintended escalation or expansion of the war, and reestablish strategic stability with Russia, as well as to enable the post-hostilities reconstruction of Ukraine to enable its survival as a viable state.
The Ukraine War has had the perverse effect of increasing Europe’s, especially Germany’s, external dependencies. Today, German chemical companies are building some of the world’s largest processing plants in China, using Russian gas that they cannot obtain at home.
The Trump Administration finds itself at odds with European officials who hold unrealistic expectations for the war perched in unstable minority governments, many of which trample on basic principles of democracy to suppress opposition. A large European majority wants peace, yet that desire is not translated into policy, in large measure because of those governments’ subversion of democratic processes. This is strategically important to the United States precisely because European states cannot reform themselves if they are trapped in political crisis.
Yet Europe remains strategically and culturally vital to the United States. Transatlantic trade remains one of the pillars of the global economy and of American prosperity. European sectors from manufacturing to technology to
energy remain among the world’s most robust. Europe is home to cutting-edge scientific research and world-leading cultural institutions. Not only can we not afford to write Europe off—doing so would be self-defeating for what this strategy aims to achieve.
American diplomacy should continue to stand up for genuine democracy, freedom of expression, and unapologetic celebrations of European nations’ individual character and history. America encourages its political allies in Europe to promote this revival of spirit, and the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed gives cause for great optimism.
Our goal should be to help Europe correct its current trajectory. We will need a strong Europe to help us successfully compete, and to work in concert with us to prevent any adversary from dominating Europe.
America is, understandably, sentimentally attached to the European continent — and, of course, to Britain and Ireland. The character of these countries is also strategically important because we count upon creative, capable, confident, democratic allies to establish conditions of stability and security. We want to work with aligned countries that want to restore their former greatness. (continue reading)
Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin does not see a strong Europe; instead, he sees a continent destroying itself and creating vulnerabilities that can easily be exploited.
President Trump is attempting to stop the inevitable conclusion, the outcome created throughout history, when a strong nation state is positioned right next to a vulnerable, fat, lazy and weak-minded coalition of states.
Europe would be wise to listen to President Trump now, because the American people are not willing to put our blood on the line again to protect the EU – ultimately from itself.
“We want the world’s most robust, credible, and modern nuclear deterrent, plus next-generation missile defenses—including a Golden Dome for the American homeland—to protect the American people, American assets overseas, and American allies.”
Is that where Palantir comes in handy with their surveillance wizardry?
In this video George Webb explains the Golden Dome technology, AI and the surveillance state, breeder reactors being built in Idaho and elsewhere to fuel the new technology parks, uranium mining in Utah, extracting rare earth elements from mining wastes, retrofitting older missile systems with neutron capability to extend the Ukraine conflict, black market weaponry and the Biden involvement, and Palantir et al.
GW CHARLIE KIRK KILLED BECAUSE OF UKE NUKE SECRET
The videos he’s made since then include a deeper dive and better understanding with regard to how all the aforementioned intertwine.
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George Webb is an interesting person. He’s been uncovering deep secrets for a long time now. He talks in this video how other people kind of distanced themselves recently from the issue he’s talking about, because after all people who talk about this kind of stuff get themselves killed, but he’s taking the courageous step of outing this info as cover for everyone else, so apparently he’s not afraid of being killed. According to him and others Charlie Kirk got himself killed for knowing too much about this. But it seems funny to me that somehow after all the really deep state things George has revealed nothing ever happens to him. He travels all around, talks about it on the web, goes to places and talks to all kinds of people where one might conceivably be able to be killed but nope he still lives on. I just find that fascinating.
“Civilizational erasure”. That’s a doozy.
Very accurate too.
A Europe We Can Believe In
The Paris Statement
24 languages,
36 short paragraphs
https://thetrueeurope.eu/
“Neither Lampedusa, nor Brussels, Being European”
Institut Iliade
Import the 3rd world become the 3rd world. This has been going on for decades right under everyone’s noses. The “woke” EU cowards have allowed it to happen. POTUS is correct, they are destroying themselves with their insane liberal immigration and refugee allowance.
History repeated, why & how did they know this was a problem back during the Crusades? They were aware of the threat and thus removed it.
We need men of courage like our VSGPOTUS to make it happen in today’s world.
The “woke” EU cowards have CAUSED it to happen.
FIFY 😆
Clandestine has recognized President Trump’s brilliant forward thinking…..
This is an excellent essay that summarizes the Trump Doctrine’s goals:
The Russians recently published this commentary about Trump’s new security policy: (published by a member of their own “Valdai Discussion Club”)
https://www.rt.com/news/629119-trump-shatters-liberal-illusion/
I wanted to ask you to just go read it, but I guess that I couldn’t resist:
“Trump’s foreign policy vision is not a crusade. It is realism with a human face. It seeks peace, not perpetual confrontation. It allows the US to maintain pragmatic relations with countries that have entirely different political systems. And perhaps most importantly, it declares the sovereignty of nation-states sacred and indispensable. Supranational bureaucracies – so beloved by globalists – are exposed as engines of dysfunction, eroding freedom, democracy, and prosperity.
“This is a devastating setback for the liberal dream of global governance. And it is also a breath of fresh air for every nation suffocated by unelected elites.
“Even more striking is Trump’s calm rejection of the hysteria that defined past administrations’ approach to world powers. Russia is no longer framed as a demonic threat. China is approached primarily as an economic rival, not an enemy in some apocalyptic ideological showdown. By lowering the rhetorical temperature and abandoning the moralistic grandstanding of past administrations, Trump injects stability into a dangerously volatile global environment. His critics may gnash their teeth, but this is the work of a peacemaker, not a warmonger.”
Foreign nations are now saying this. (The quoted article is much larger … don’t just stop at my quote.)
Later:
“Because the alternative is clear: Liberal elites are dragging Western Europe into war, economic catastrophe, social chaos, and cultural disintegration. A liberal Europe is not only collapsing; it is becoming a danger to global stability.”
Nice to see a competent adult back in charge with the intelligence to perform strategic management correctly. This document falls into stage one of strategic management which is strategy formulation (followed by implementation and then evaluation). In a typical standard strategic process model, it would encompass all four formulation components preceding the first implementation component. Igor Ansoff would have liked it. Now implement.
who’s that fey twit again, in the photo?
all – if I ever look that hopelessly twink in public, please shoot me now
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The Strategy has no problem naming ideologies when it is safe. Net Zero, climate hysteria, DEI, transnationalism, all correctly identified and blamed where appropriate. On Europe’s green self-sabotage, it is actually honest and explicit.
Where courage suddenly evaporates is the other driver of Europe’s crisis: Islamic ideological expansion through mass migration. There, the language instantly downgrades to “migration policies that are transforming the continent,” as if this were a logistics problem at UPS or FedEx facility in Frankfurt.
Influence operations, cultural subversion, institutional capture, demographic engineering–all carefully mapped for China, for domestic radicals, and for Brussels. The moment the same framework would obviously apply to Islamic networks, the pen literally lifts from the paper.
Add to that a China postmortem followed by a China replay with Gulf theocracies. With China, we had the excuse of naïveté (we assumed or rather pretended engagement would magically change an ancient culture built on lies and dishonesty). With the Gulf, we are explicitly abandoning any expectation of alignment while transferring strategic assets.
The Strategy treats civilizational and ideological factors as decisive, but only selectively. It is very sharp where it is convenient and very blind where it is not.
On Europe, ideology matters:
“We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence.”
On America, ideology matters:
“We want the restoration and reinvigoration of American spiritual and cultural health, without which long-term security is impossible.”
On the Gulf, ideology is bracketed:
“[The Middle East is] emerging as a place of partnership, friendship, and investment.”
Again, this is strategic compartmentalization: ideology is treated as decisive in some theaters and irrelevant in others. The Strategy cannot coherently argue that European identity and American spiritual health are civilizational imperatives while simultaneously treating Gulf theocracies, which fund global ideological (jihad) infrastructure, as benign investment partners.
The consequence is predictable: short-term capital flows create incentives to ignore long-term ideological effects. The more dependent we become on Gulf investment, the less willing we become to name the threat.
How is that not China 2.0 with Islamic flavors?