‘The European Conservative’: Trump’s tough love for Europe

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Contrary to what globalists are saying, the Trump administration does not “hate Europe.” It hates what Europe has become under decades of failed leadership.

President Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy (NSS) exemplifies that kind of tough love for Europe, ‘The European Conservative’ writes.

The Trump NSS articulates a massive shift in US policy, one that has been emerging in the second Trump administration but that finds clarity in this document. The NSS, whose author is not named (but U.S. Director of Policy Planning Michael Anton’s fingerprints are all over it), casts aside the globalist neoliberalism that has defined U.S. foreign policy for the past several decades. No more ‘free trade’ that wrecks the American middle class and industrial base. No more writing endless cheques for European defense. And no more “lash[ing] American policy to a network of international institutions, some of which are driven by outright anti-Americanism and many by a transnationalism that explicitly seeks to dissolve individual state sovereignty.”

The Trump NSS comes out unapologetically for “the sovereign rights of nations,” and encourages other nations to embrace sovereignty for themselves too, “against the sovereignty-sapping incursions of the most intrusive transnational organizations.” Somebody hand von der Leyen a box of tissues.

The NSS identifies mass migration as a chief threat to sovereignty

“In countries throughout the world, mass migration has strained domestic resources, increased violence and other crime, weakened social cohesion, distorted labor markets, and undermined national security,” it reads. “The era of mass migration must end.”

The document also comes out powerfully in defense of free speech and freedom of religion, both in the United States and among America’s allies. It could not be clearer: “We will oppose elite-driven, anti-democratic restrictions on core liberties in Europe, the Anglosphere, and the rest of the democratic world, especially among our allies.”

And then the NSS comes specifically to Europe. As bad as Europe’s anemic economic performance is, its inability to control its borders is even worse. The NSS says that the continent faces an existential crisis, one of potential “civilizational erasure.”

The larger issues facing Europe include activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine 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. Should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less.

The Trump NSS warns that Europe’s decline is so severe that the question of whether its nations can be “reliable allies” of the United States is on the table. But contrary to what globalists in Europe and the U.S. are saying, the Trump administration does not “hate Europe.” It hates what Europe has become under decades of failed leadership.

“We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence, and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation,” says the NSS.

Well, yes, and so do many Europeans. They are the ones that European media and Eurocrats in Brussels and in the continent’s capitals denounce as ‘far right.’

The Trump NSS is a dream document for European sovereigntists, who have for so long been maligned and marginalized in their own countries. These lines could have been drafted by Fidesz, VOX, the AfD, Fratelli d’Italia, the Rassemblement National, and other parties of the patriotic Right:

The European ruling class is not taking it well. France’s former ambassador to the U.S., Gérard Araud, tweeted, “The stunning section devoted to Europe reads like a far-right pamphlet.” Former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt likewise responded, “In saying that Europe faces ‘civilizational erasure,’ the Trump new security strategy places itself to the right of the extreme right in Europe.”

Bildt refers to this passage of the NSS, which touches the electrified third rail of European politics: the Great Replacement:

Over the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades at the latest, certain NATO members will become majority non-European. As such, it is an open question whether they will view their place in the world, or their alliance with the United States, in the same way as those who signed the NATO charter.

The UK’s three biggest cities — London, Birmingham, and Manchester — could be majority Islamic

Look at UK cities. Today, nearly one in three residents of Birmingham, Britain’s second-largest city, are Muslim. In London, the capital, 16% are Muslim. Granted, predicting religious trends is shaky business, but on current trends, by 2075, the UK’s three biggest cities — London, Birmingham, and Manchester — could be majority Islamic.

Today, white Britons are already a minority in London, though whites overall hold a slim majority (54%). Whites are already an absolute minority in Birmingham (49%), with 43% of that share identified as white British. Similarly, whites are a majority in Manchester today (57%), though white Britons are only 49% of Mancunians.

By 2050, though, whites will be absolute minorities in all three cities. And, if Goodwin’s analysis earlier this year is correct, white Britons — those whose ancestral roots are in that country — will make up only one in three residents on the island by 2100.

These tectonic population shifts are happening during Europe’s longest-ever period of internal peace. In fact, UK journalist Sean Thomas recently noted that within 50 years, London has gone from being 85% white British to being 37% white British, and falling.

“There was not so much a replacement as an invited influx, deliberately willed by the government of the day,” Thomas writes in the Telegraph. “London, then, really is unique in peacetime. No one voted for the change we’ve seen, no one consciously willed it, yet it has happened.”

Many, perhaps most, Europeans see this, but to complain publicly about mass migration and its consequences is to risk trouble with the law.

In Britain, there are countless clips of ordinary people being harassed by police, even arrested, for objecting to migration.

The rising prospect of civil war in the UK and Europe

No wonder Brussels wants to clamp down on free speech via hate speech laws and mechanisms like the Digital Services Act. The ruling classes of Western European countries do not wish their own people to notice what their leaders do.

Plus, governments appear to have concluded that one important way to avoid civil conflict between Islamic and migrant populations on one side, and native-born people on the other, is to criminalize whites noticing and complaining. That, and to demonize as ‘far-right’ those who can see clearly what is happening, and don’t like it.

It won’t work. The ruling classes in European capitals, and in Brussels, have created a potentially revolutionary situation in Europe. King’s College London war studies professor David Betz has been warning loudly all year about the rising prospect of civil war in the UK and Europe — this, based on what academics know about how civil wars begin — but official Europe doesn’t want to listen.

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