Trump’s National Security Strategy Is a Blueprint for the Demise of the West

The White House’s agenda may not be coherent, but it is deeply dangerous.

U.S. President Donald Trump participates in a roundtable discussion with farmers in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Dec. 8. December 11, 2025, 4:05 PM

In a bygone age, prominent conservatives in the United States clung to any number of well-worn complaints about the country’s Western European allies.

According to these Cold War U.S. ideologues, Europeans taxed too much and spent the money on overly generous social security programs that supposedly rendered them soft while inhibiting innovation and growth. Frequent were the warnings that Europe was abandoning the ethos of open and competitive markets that had made it a bastion of

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