Is Europe going through civilizational collapse? That seems to be the view of the Trump administration, as detailed in its National Security Strategy (NSS) roadmap revealed on December 5. The European Union occupies an necessary place within the doc, which presents the EU as threatened by a complete vary of issues that embrace irregular migration, financial stagnation and the disappearance of its values.
More than mere commentary, the doc – one of many few to formally clarify Trump’s doctrine – alerts the Trump administration’s want to help the creation of a Europe extra to its liking. Whether by asserting the necessity to “domesticate resistance to Europe’s present trajectory inside European nations,” or to “open European markets to U.S. items and providers,” the memo takes as a given that the administration ought to exert affect in Europe. Given Donald Trump’s behavior of flip-flopping and double-speak, such readability is novel, to say the least.
For some observers, the doc displays Donald Trump’s open hostility in direction of the European Union because it exists at this time, in addition to his affection for the European far proper, the one individuals – in accordance with Trump – able to defending Europe. This place has been shortly and broadly echoed by Silicon Valley figures near the administration.
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