As Russia praises Trump’s new security strategy, the UK is in trouble

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1. The extent to which Trump is ditching the post-Second World War transatlantic alliance is laid out in stark, black-and-white print across a mere two-and-a-half pages of the document, in which it attacks Europe for an “economic decline… eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilisational erasure”.

   In the White House’s telling, the UK and its European neighbours have allowed their national identities to atrophy under the weight of unconstrained immigration, have censored free speech, have suppressed opposition parties and have lost confidence in their own governing system.

   The document ignores the fact that Europe is dominated by democracies that have shared America’s post-war vision of expanding free societies, promoting human rights and taking a stand against dictatorships.

   None of that matters to Washington any more. In fact, the first reference to “democracy” only appears on page 16 of Trump’s strategy, and only three times during the entire document.

   Former US president Ronald Reagan’s vision of America as a “shining city upon a hill” – a beacon of freedom and democracy for other societies to emulate – is being formally eviscerated by Trump.

   The document declares: “We seek good relations and peaceful commercial relations with the nations of the world without imposing on them democratic or other social change that differs widely from their traditions and histories.”

   Little wonder that [Putin is celebrating its release](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/trump-willing-pawn-putin-game-war-ukraine-russia-3992269?ico=in-line_link).

   Meanwhile, Europe is being told in no uncertain terms that it has no future unless it allows the continent’s more right-wing parties a larger say in government.

   The US wants to work with European countries “that want to restore their former greatness”, the [National Security Strategy says](https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf), and for that to happen: “Europe must correct its current trajectory… the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed gives cause for great optimism”.

2. Can we listen now please to the shit that comes out of this administration’s mouth? The Trans Atlantic consensus is over. Europe need to go its own way.

3. “Russia praises Trump’s security strategy”

   For once, I think the title says it all. I wonder if a hypothetical future democratic government will be able -or willing- to revert this direction.

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