Donald Trump has warned European nations that they are under threat of ‘civilisational erasure’ and will be ‘unrecognisable’ in the next 20 years.
The US president brutally criticised long-established allies as he unveiled his long-awaited national security strategy that sharply changes US priorities in line with his ‘America First’ worldview.
In extraordinary language, the strategy called for ‘cultivating resistance’ within Europe and said the US wanted to restore ‘Western identity’.
It also backed hard-right claims that the continent faces ‘civilisational erasure’ due to migration.
‘It is more than plausible that within a few decades at the latest, certain NATO members will become majority non-European,’ it said.
The administration denounces European ‘censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition,’ an allusion to efforts to constrain hard-right voices including those who have railed against migrants.
The paper also vows that there would be no expansion of NATO, the transatlantic alliance in which the United States is the key power, again dashing Ukraine’s hopes as it endures a Russian invasion.
Meanwhile, European governments are criticised for hindering the peace process to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.