The US is now a potent threat to Europe. No one alive has ever seen this

The National Security Strategy of the United States of America is not the kind of document which you’d usually describe as a page-turner.

It’s a policy document that is typically updated just once per presidential term, and it sets out the USA’s priorities across the world. Generally, it doesn’t change all that much whether it’s a Democrat or a Republican in office.

The USA, it generally says, is committed to defending and promoting freedom everywhere, supporting democracies, and – it generally tries to make this sound incidental – creating markets for US companies to sell their goods and services wherever possible. Those are the kind of long-term strategic goals that typically don’t drastically change when the incumbent of the Oval Office does. Until now .

Donald Trump’s White House