The Trump administration’s recently released national security strategy was not intended as empty criticism of Europe but was designed to help steer the continent back on track, a top State Department official said.
“The president’s national security strategy was not an insult, it was a diagnosis,”
The Trump national security team’s unusually blunt strategy document warned that a declining Europe lacked “self-confidence” and risked “civilizational erasure” as a result of immigration and weak political leadership. It charged that those leaders were ...