Europeans in Shock Over U.S. National Security Strategy 2025

LONDON, Dec. 9—Europeans leaders and mainstream media afflicted by Trump Derangement Syndrome have panicked since the publication, on the White House website, of the “National Security Strategy of the United States of America 2025.” What scares the Europeans is the U.S. government’s announced decision to prioritize “Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations,” as such a trajectory is described in brutal, but truthful terms. The paper is especially critical regarding the EU’s Russia policy.

With headlines blaring that Trump has abandoned Europe, the panicked NATO elite is telling its population that it would appear that Donald Trump is going to make good on his threat to pull the plug on NATO, stating that it may even be the case that the American President sees a future possible alliance with Russia. And it gets even worse: he demands not only a rejection of NATO's anti-Russian orientation, but European Union policies that back this up. Several editorials bemoan that Trump might actually force this policy through—unless there is a mobilization by liberaqls and neo-cons alike to stop it. Sources report that NATO has ordered its propaganda machine that is most of the American to take up the battle against "Euro abandonment" and the "sell out to Putin."

But the NSS speaks to a reality that the NATO policy elite, and the bankers they serve refuses to address. It warns that Europe is threatened with the “erasure of civilization” if the current policy, enforced by the European Union and other transnational institutions, is not stopped. Europe’s "lack of self-confidence is most evident in Europe’s relationship with Russia. European allies enjoy a significant hard power advantage over Russia by almost every measure, save nuclear weapons. As a result of Russia’s war in Ukraine, European relations with Russia are now deeply attenuated, and many Europeans regard Russia as an existential threat. Managing European relations with Russia will require significant U.S. diplomatic engagement, both to reestablish conditions of strategic stability across the Eurasian landmass, and to mitigate the risk of conflict between Russia and European states.

“It is a core interest of the United States to negotiate an expeditious cessation of hostilities in Ukraine, in order to stabilize European economies, prevent unintended escalation or expansion of the war, and reestablish strategic stability with Russia, as well as to enable the post-hostilities reconstruction of Ukraine to enable its survival as a viable state.

“The Ukraine War has had the perverse effect of increasing Europe’s, especially Germany’s, external dependencies. Today, German chemical companies are building some of the world’s largest processing plants in China, using Russian gas that they cannot obtain at home. The Trump Administration finds itself at odds with European officials who hold unrealistic expectations for the war perched in unstable minority governments, many of which trample on basic principles of democracy to suppress opposition. A large European majority wants peace, yet that desire is not translated into policy, in large measure because of those governments’ subversion of democratic processes.”

However shocked the continental Europeans are, the British elite are all the more so. Ruth Deyermond, professor at the Institute for War Studies at King’s College London and rgearded as a top expert on U.S.-Russian relations, noted on X that the document reveals “the huge shift in U.S. policy towards Russia visible in the new National Security Strategy—the biggest change since the collapse of the U.S.S.R.”

Russia is mentioned only ten times in the entire document, Deyermond complains, and almost exclusively to illustrate Europe’s weakness. In one example the document declares that “This lack of self-confidence is most evident in Europe’s relationship with Russia.”

Deyermond declares: "The absence of Russia from the 2025 National Security Strategy looks really odd both because Russia is obviously one of the states having the most significant impact on global stability at the moment, and because the administration is so clearly interested in Russia. …

“It [is] not just the lack of mentions of Russia that’s striking, it’s the fact Russia isn’t ever mentioned as an adversary or threat.”

She writes: “The lack of discussion of Russia, despite its significance for international security and order and its … importance to the Trump administration, makes it look as if they are simply waiting to be able to talk more positively about the relationship in the future.” The document’s section on the war in Ukraine—which refers to the fact that “the Trump Administration finds itself at odds with European politicians who hold unrealistic expectations for the war…” reads as if it had been dictated by the Russian government.

“If anyone in Europe was still clinging to the idea that the Trump administration isn’t immovably pro-Russian and hostile to Western institutions and values, they need to read the 2025 National Security Strategy and think again,” she offers as her conclusion in the first words of her post.