Without warning, the United States of America released a much-anticipated National Security Strategy (NSS), which aims to refocus American security around an updated set of core American interests–sovereignty and borders, security at home, and restoring “American Greatness.”
The strategy has significant implications for America’s role on the world stage, its priorities at home, and how to put ‘America First’ into practise. But it is the short, declaratory section of Europe that has attracted the loudest howls of outrage.
The document pulls no punches. In the opening sentences, it declares that Europe’s “economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure.” In this, the document can be seen as an extension of Vice President Vance’s notorious comments in Munich that European countries had no idea what “they were supposed to be fighting for.”
