Overview
- Boris Pistorius said the U.S. National Security Strategy published on December 5 reads like a break with Europe and warned that losing Europe would be a fatal error for U.S. policy.
- He noted the document’s sharp criticism of EU policies on regulation, migration, and speech, arguing the harder tone had been signaled months earlier by Vice President J.D. Vance.
- Pistorius said the United States still has a core interest in a stable Europe, pointing to NATO leaders’ reaffirmation of Article 5 at The Hague summit.
- He stressed that Europeans will increasingly need to rely on their own capabilities as the United States devotes more attention to the Indo-Pacific.
- Russia’s Sergey Lavrov described the strategy as an attempt to show Europe its place and to limit European efforts to draw Washington into advancing a liberal order.