The 29-page US National Security Strategy (NSS) sent shock waves around Europe when it was unveiled last week, condemning Washington\u2019s European allies as \u201cweak\u201d and offering support to far-right political parties.<\/p>\n
According to US-based news \u00adchannel Defence One, a longer and unpublished version of the document suggested taking Austria, Hungary, Italy and Poland out of the EU and into greater alignment with the US, while backing movements supportive of \u201ctraditional European ways of life\u201d.<\/p>\n
The four nations were cited as countries the US should \u201cwork with more\u2026 with the goal of pulling them away\u201d from the EU, according to Defence One, which claimed to have reviewed the document.<\/p>\n
The White House strongly pushed back against the existence of an \u00adunabridged version of the report.<\/p>\n
Defence One claims that it elaborated on how Mr Trump would like to build Washington\u2019s relationship with ideologically aligned administrations, as the US focuses on domestic priorities.<\/p>\n
\nNo alternative, private, or classified version exists<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\u201cWe should support parties, movements, and intellectual and cultural figures who seek sovereignty and preservation\/restoration of traditional European ways of life\u2026while remaining pro-American,\u201d it said, according to Defence One. The alleged document is likely to spark further alarm in Europe, just days after the NSS claimed countries such as France and Germany were \u201cdecaying\u201d due to migration and stifled economic growth.<\/p>\n
White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly refuted the existence of the report, saying: \u201cNo alternative, private, or classified version exists. President Trump is transparent and put his signature on one NSS that clearly instructs the US government to execute on his defined principles and priorities.\u201d<\/p>\n
The published version of the document also accused Europe of failing to stop the war in Ukraine, claiming that European leaders had let the conflict \u201ckeep going on and on\u201d.<\/p>\n
It said \u201cthe Trump Administration finds itself at odds with European officials who hold unrealistic expectations for the war perched in unstable minority governments, many of which trample on basic principles of democracy to suppress opposition\u201d. The report also claimed that Europe faces \u201ccivilisational erasure\u201d<\/p>\n
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