The strategy carries strong echoes of a speech US vice-president JD Vance delivered to the Munich Security Forum in February, which stunned European allies for its adversarial tone. Photograph: Matthias Schrader/AP
A new US national security strategy has called for “cultivating resistance” in Europe, warning that the Continent is subverting democracy, blocking peace in Ukraine and facing “civilisational erasure” from high migration and falling birth rates.
The document blames European officials for thwarting US efforts to end the war in Ukraine, accusing governments of ignoring what it claims is a “large European majority” that wants peace.
The 33-page document underscores the radical reorientation of US foreign policy
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