Overview
- The strategy, released last week, warns Europe faces “civilizational erasure” and even suggests some NATO members could become majority non-European, drawing denunciations from mainstream officials including Josep Borrell.
- Right-wing figures such as Poland’s Krzysztof Bosak and France’s Jordan Bardella welcomed the critique of migration and EU institutions, though they cautioned against U.S. meddling in their domestic politics.
- The document elevates the Western Hemisphere through a stated “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine, focusing on border control, narcotics, and denying rivals strategic footholds while enlisting regional partners.
- The NSS downshifts the China relationship from existential rivalry to competitive and transactional, a move Peking University’s Wang Jisi notes as part of an inward U.S. turn in a world of two superpowers and many strong powers.
- It declares the U.S. will no longer “prop up the entire world order,” presses wealthy allies to take primary regional responsibility, and conditions deterrence commitments—including in the Taiwan Strait—on greater allied contributions, prompting warnings of alliance strain and fragmentation.