Thread by @JMichaelWaller

🧵 The new National Security Strategy of the US is more pro-Europe than many Europeans are.

Page 5: "We want to support our allies in preserving the freedom and security of Europe, while restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity"

2) The US supports European countries keeping their national identities. Page 12:

"We will oppose elite-driven, anti-democratic restrictions on core liberties in Europe, the Anglosphere, and the rest of the democratic world, especially among our allies.:

3) The US opposes "disastrous ... ideologies that have so greatly harmed Europe, threaten the United States, and subsidize our adversaries." (page 14)

4) US supports joint coordination with European & other allies to improve comparative advantages and form coalitions (against Communist China). Page 23:

5) The strategy has a whole section on "Promoting European Greatness." It desires that Europe recover from its "civilizational erasure," its countries' loss of sovereignty and erosion of civil rights; its "loss of national identities and self-confidence."

"We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence...."
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6) "European allies enjoy a significant hard power advantage over Russia," the strategy says, but many European countries' loss of self-confidence weakens them and weakens Ukraine's ability to retain a "viable state."

US strategy is to make the best of a bad situation.

7) Paradox: Germany is continuing to buy gas from Russia by building a huge plant in China.

European officials of "unstable minority governments" hold "unrealistic expectations" for the Ukraine war and "trample on basic principles of democracy to suppress opposition." (page 26)

8) Despite this, according to the Trump strategy, "Europe remains strategically and culturally vital to the United States."

"Not only can we not afford to write Europe off - doing so would be self-defeating for what this strategy aims to achieve."

(page 26)

9) Trump's strategy pushes for a "revival of spirit" in Europe, against the post-civilizational elites bent on tearing things down: "the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed gives cause for great optimism."

"We want to work with aligned countries that want to restore their former greatness."

10) The strategy recognizes that some European allies soon will cease to be European. Their view of the world, and their NATO alliance with the US, will be questionable.

Therefore the strategy is to pick and choose among NATO countries that seek to revive themselves.

11) The strategy seeks to help Europe become internally stable and with "strategic stability with Russia,"

to "stand on its own two feet" for sovereignty against hostile foreign domination,

to help resist the trend toward national and cultural self-destruction,

to build up "healthy nations,"

to end the idea of a constantly-expanding NATO, and

to defend Europe against (Chinese Communist) economic warfare and espionage. (p. 27)

12) That's everything that Trump's US National Security Strategy says about Europe. whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…