The author of the material believes that with the new 33-page US National Security Strategy, “Trump has launched a crusade” to win over politics in Europe.
“Support the far right to make Europe great again,” writes the journalist, after analyzing the US strategy towards the European part of the world.
The publication concludes that American diplomacy will use all its “power” to promote “patriotic” (that is, right-wing) parties in Europe, suppress migration, destroy “censorship” and save “civilization” from decline.
Having studied the document, Politico notes that it mentions the issue of ending Russia’s war against Ukraine, but Washington’s official position is now that the security of Europe depends on a “decisive policy shift” to the right.
The publication, in particular, cites that part of the new American strategy, which states that if “current trends continue,” Europe will “change beyond recognition” in 20 years or even earlier, and this will affect the ability of the economies and militaries of “some countries” to remain reliable allies.
Politico writes that Washington's references to declining birth rates, rising immigration and the “race dimension” are familiar to voters in Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Germany, where far-right politicians have formulated the so-called “great replacement theory,” which argues that there is some kind of elite conspiracy to dilute the white population and reduce its influence.
The author of the material believes that French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who have so far successfully “avoided open conflict” with Trump, who could “completely break off transatlantic relations,” will still have to come face to face with the head of the White House.
According to the journalist, Trump expects that in Europe there is a “critical mass” of voters who want an analogue of the American slogan MAGA (“America First”), and “worst of all” this is for leaders such as Macron, Merz and Starmer.
At the same time, the publication concludes that European officials, whose job is to protect their elections from foreign interference, “are not eager to engage in a fight with Trump.”
The European Commission says the elections need to be protected not only from Russia, and that there are “many players who would like to damage the structure of the EU” and undermine trust in its institutions.
Trump's America “should now surely count as one of them,” Politico writes.
