The signs had been growing stronger since Inauguration Day. Yet in the early hours of last Friday, the White House website made it official: For President Donald Trump, the main transatlantic threat is not Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

It is Europe’s democracies: America’s closest overseas allies for the past 80 years.

The extraordinary broadside against mostly centrist European governments came in Mr. Trumps’ National Security Strategy of the United States , or NSS – a policy document published by all U.S. administrations that rarely breaks new ground or generates much lasting news interest.

Why We Wrote This

Donald Trump’s new national security strategy turns history on its head, dismissing a Europe it says faces “civilizational erasure” and praising far-right parties that Moscow suppor

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