(Washington) The Trump administration published a document on Friday presenting a resolutely nationalist “National Security Strategy”, anticipating the “civilizational erasure” of Europe and advocating the fight against “mass migration” as well as “American supremacy” in Latin America.
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“In everything we do, we put the United States first,” summarizes Donald Trump in a preface to the 33-page document, which urges “protecting the country against invasions”.
But he also intends to put an end to “the era when the United States supported the entire world order, like Atlas” and claims to turn the page to the decades after the Second World War.
“If current trends continue, the (European) continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less,” he says, while relations between the United States and the European Union are strained, against the backdrop of negotiations to end the war between Russia and Ukraine without the Old Continent being involved.
The text confirms the main lines of American foreign policy since Donald Trump’s return to the White House in January.
U.S. presidents typically issue a strategy presentation of this type each term. The last, published by Joe Biden in 2022, focused on acquiring a competitive advantage over China while limiting a Russia deemed “dangerous”.
The news, available on the White House website, conversely gives “no assessment” of the Russian threat, points out to AFP Kristine Berzina, of the German Marshall Fund think tank, based in Washington.
The document mentions “European anxiety regarding Russia” but “does not specify whether the United States is worried about possible Russian aggression, when this should be a concern for the United States, not only in Europe, but also in the Arctic, the Middle East, Africa and the Pacific”, says this researcher.
European “loss of national identities”
“It is more than plausible that, within a few decades at the latest, NATO members will become predominantly non-European,” assures the text.
Washington denounces pell-mell European decisions which “undermine political freedom and sovereignty, migration policies which transform the continent and create tensions, the censorship of freedom of expression and the repression of political opposition, the fall in birth rates, as well as the loss of national identities. »
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US President Donald Trump
The Trump administration expresses the wish that “Europe remains European, regains its civilizational self-confidence and abandons its fruitless obsession with regulatory asphyxiation”.
Berlin reacted promptly via its Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul, according to whom Germany does not need “advice from outside” on “freedom of expression” or “the organization of free societies”.
This strategy “rejects decades of American leadership based on values in favor of a cowardly and unprincipled worldview,” castigated the elected American Democrat Gregory Meeks.
The document, which overviews the strategy on Africa and the Middle East in just a few paragraphs, aims to reorient American diplomatic and military policy with regard to global geopolitical developments, but above all the newly defined interests of Washington.
“Border Security”
Highlighting efforts to increase U.S. energy supplies, the text believes that “the United States’ historical rationale for focusing on the Middle East will diminish.”
He calls for “restoring American supremacy” in Latin America, and announces a “readjustment” of the American military presence in the world, “to respond to urgent threats on our continent”.
It also recommends “a move away from theaters whose relative importance to American national security has diminished in recent years or decades.”
On China, the strategy reiterates calls for a “free and open” Asia-Pacific region, but places greater emphasis on economic competition.
Japan and South Korea are called on to do more to support Taiwan against Beijing.
Furthermore, “the era of mass migration must end. Border security is the main element of national security,” states this document, in continuation of President Trump’s tightening of the screw against immigration.
Latest decisions to date from Donald Trump’s anti-immigration policy, the suspension of applications for “green cards” for permanent residents or naturalization from nationals of 19 countries.
