Trump Considers Europe Weak and Unable to Protect Itself, Its Culture

Trump’s new Security Strategy paints Europe as weak and facing ‘civilisational erasure’ If any European leader hoped they could woo the US president with gifts, flattery and promises of defence spending, America’s new “National Security Strategy” is a stark reminder of what the Trump administration really sees: the death of European civilisation. It will take more than oaths and words of honour to convince him otherwise.   In a 33-page document quietly released on Thursday in the US, the Trump administration reveals it wants to restore “European greatness” to a continent it sees as plagued by economic decline and the…