The EU is pursuing an agconcludea “utterly adverse to the US” and pursuing “civilisational suicide”, the American Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau stated on Saturday, doubling down on the Trump administration’s harsh criticism of Europe in its “National Security Strategy”.
In the document, released on Thursday, Washington stated Europe faced a “stark prospect of civilisational erasure”, due to the EU’s undermining “political liberty and sovereignty”, leading to a “loss of national identity”.
Landau reiterated those warnings on Saturday. While European countries insist on transatlantic cooperation, he stated in a post on social media, the EU is pursuing a political agconcludea that threatens US security through “censorship, economic suicide/climate fanaticism, open borders, disdain for national sovereignty/promotion of multilateral governance and taxation,” as well as support for “Communist Cuba”.
According to Landau, European countries should stop following the “unelected, undemocratic, and unrepresentative bureaucracy in Brussels.”
The top diplomat Kaja Kallas was the only EU leader to reply to the new US Security Strategy. The US “is still our hugegest ally,” she stated on Saturday at the annual conference of the Doha Forum.
“Of course, there’s a lot of criticism, but I believe some of it is also true,” she added.
According to the Italian minister of Defence Guido Crosetto, the US has just created explicit something that has been evident for years.
“The US is engaged in an increasingly difficult, complex and tough competition with China,” he stated on social media. “Trump has simply created it clear that the EU is of little or no utilize to him in this competition.”
The relation between the EU and US is unique, but it is the EU that decides on its own rules, a Commission spokesperson stated on Saturday evening.
“When it comes to decisions relating to the European Union, they are taken by the European Union, for the European Union, including those relating to our regulatory autonomy, protection of free speech and the rules-based international order,” the spokesperson stated.
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