Trump lays bare his contempt for Europe in blistering new national security plan
But the paper’s most disturbing thinking is reserved for the US’ favorite bete noir: Europe. The echoes of Vice President JD Vance’s corrosive speech in February at the Munich Security Conference run through two pages which accuse – without evidence – European allies of suppressing free speech and democracy, while crippling their own economies through over-regulation. It claims a majority of Europeans are denied democratic expression of their desire for peace with Russia – a reductive take on a continent eager to avoid another conflagration, and seeing the Russian threat manifest itself in sabotage across their capitals.
The strategy borrows from those on Europe’s extremities when it dips into the racist “great replacement” theory to state that Europe faces “civilizational erasure.”
“It is more than plausible that within a few decades at the latest, certain NATO members will become majority non-European.” In other words, Europe will be less White, will therefore turn on America’s alliances when they are “unrecognizable in 20 years or less” and not necessarily “strong enough to remain reliable allies.” It goes further, to suggest the remedy of “cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations” – a nod to overt interference.
Russia is spared, unsurprisingly, similar criticism, and deemed a relationship worthy of “strategic stability.” The US is familiarly cast not as a NATO ally to Europe, but a mediator “to mitigate the risk of conflict between Russia and European states.” It slams “European officials who hold unrealistic expectations for the war perched in unstable minority governments,” where popular desire for peace is trampled by censorship and the suppression of democracy (a false premise).
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/05/europe/trump-national-security-plan-europe-latam-intlThe mention of "migration" there points to Miller being a lead author.
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