A section of the Trump administration’s recently released National Security Strategy titled “Promoting European Greatness” warns that Europe faces the “stark prospect of civilizational erasure,” making the continent “unrecognizable in 20 years or less.” It blames (among other issues like economic decline) transnational bodies like the European Union for undermining “political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence.”
In a UK Guardian piece last weekend called “The facts are stark: Europe must open the door to migrants, or face its own extinction,” columnist George Monbiot argued that, contrary to the White House view that European migration policies are “creating strife” and leading to “loss of national identities,” what will save European civilization from erasure is – wait for it – more mass immigration.
