In the nation’s annual National Security Report, the Trump administration has shifted focus drastically from years past, even from the time when Trump served his first term as president.
The report warns that Europe faces “civilizational erasure” through its immigration policies. The unspoken prospect is that those with Muslim values will be able to overrun and capture control of the nations of Europe through unrestrained immigration policies, reversing the victories of the Middle Ages against armed onslaughts from the east.
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Thus the report urges no further expansion of NATO lest it be overtaken by the same forces described by “civilizational erasure.” The fear is that NATO will be comprised of “non-European” countries in the future.
The report also criticizes European nations for stifling dissent and using legal and extralegal tactics to block more nationalistic parties from power, i.e., those that resemble the MAGA movement spearheaded by Trump.
The report also envisions the U.S. as playing a key role in creating “strategic stability” with Russia. This counters the Biden administration’s National Security Report that stressed the need to counter Russia’s “imperialist foreign policy.”
Parts of the report issued Thursday appear to echo a speech given in Europe earlier this year by Vice-President J.D. Vance, during which he warned against Europe’s suppression of dissent and of opposing viewpoints.
“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,” the report states.
European leaders have been pushing back against Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine because it tilts heavily toward Russia and offers little in the way of security guarantees for Ukraine post-peace. European leaders also reacted almost with shock at the tenor and tenets of the Trump administration’s new strategic plan.
