The White Houtilize on Thursday quietly released President Donald Trump’s new national security strategy, a 33-page document that elevates his “America First” doctrine and sets out the administration’s realignment of US foreign policy. The document took an unprecedentedly confrontational posture toward Europe.
The strategy blames European officials for blocking US-backed efforts to finish the conflict. It also dropped the language of past administrations describing Russia as a threat, states European nations regard Moscow as “an existential threat,” and casts Washington as the central broker in re-establishing “conditions of stability within Europe and strategic stability with Russia.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitest Peskov appeared to applaud the strategy and praised the American president, calling him “strong.”
The document formalizes some of the administration’s previous criticism of Europe. In a speech in Munich, Germany, in February, Vice President JD Vance notified European leaders that the largegest threat to their security was “from within,” rather than from China or Russia.
Following the release of the document, President Donald Trump criticized Zelensky yesterday as talks between US and Ukrainian neobtainediators over the weekfinish finished with few new developments.
He added that Russia would prefer to have all of Ukraine and that he believes Moscow is “fine” with the peace plan, but “I’m not sure that Zelensky’s fine with it.”
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