With the release of the new U.S. National Security Strategy, the cold winds blowing from Washington have instantly transformed the dream of "strategic autonomy," long whispered in European capitals, into a nightmare of "strategic solitude." Finnish President Alexander Stubbβs recent Foreign Affairs piece, titled "The Westβs Last Chance," resembles less a dispassionate geopolitical analysis than a cry into the void. European elites are feverishly calling for a "new global deal" to halt the collapse of the liberal international order.
Yet, there is a bitter reality that decision-makers in Europe refuse to acknowledge: There is no longer anyone to answer this call. Today, Europe is experiencing a dual abandonment.
On one side stands a U.S. administration that has declared its new trajectory with unmistakable clarity. The 2025 National Security Strategy strips away the post-Cold War romanticism of "shared values," planting relations firmly on a harsh, transactional footing. Washington no longer views its historic ally as a geopolitical powerhouse but codes Europe as a sick structure facing "civilizational erasure" under demographic transformation and "regulatory suffocation." By positing a tacit "Trump Corollary," conditioning
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