The Trump administration has published its official National Security Strategy, and it has provoked understandably quite strong reactions around the world.
Perhaps the most controversial part of the document is its description of the direction of U.S. relations with its longtime allies in Europe. Specifically, the Trump administration has repeated its demand for European allies to pay their fair share for national defense. The administration document also offered the frank analysis that mass migration from non-Western societies is threatening the values, culture, and historical institutions of Western Europe, and that this shift has imperiled the future of U.S.-European cooperation.
The result has apparently been especially unsettling for the U.S. partners in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), especially its member nations of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.
The European nations in NATO have long depended on the U.S. for their defense, beginning with the outset of the Cold War, circa 1947, to the present day. The onset of war in Ukraine, beginning with a Russian invasion in 2023, has suddenly made continental defense a clear and present issue, with NATO member nations in the Baltics, Scandinavia, Poland, and eastern Europe feeling the threat of aggression most keenly.
In his first term, President Trump served notice to the European members of NATO that it was time for each of them to increase their defense funding. Now, in his second term, he has said Europe must depend most on itself for its defense against Russia.
Mr. Trump has turned the U.S. defense priorities closer to home — to Central and South America, and to Mexico.
European nations had become accustomed to the U.S. being the backbone of their security for the past 70 years. Their reaction now has been critical of the U.S. and the Trump administration, as they scramble to institute military conscription and quickly increase their own defense expenditures.
Germany, like Japan, had become demilitarized following World War II, as both had been the defeated powers that had started the war. But not having to budget large sums for defense enabled them to re-industrialize and recover quickly. Now, each of them must recreate their military strength to meet the threats coming from Russia and China.
Unfortunately for Germany and its democratic neighbors, the threats are not just military. President Trump has warned them that unchecked immigration also threatens their domestic economic and cultural identities.
What began as postwar humanitarian programs for human rights and sanctuary from persecution became a flood of immigrants who are unwilling to adapt to and accept the unique cultures and frameworks of law long-established in the various nations of Europe. More and more immigrants to Europe are demanding to impose their own laws and cultures on everyone else rather than assimilating.
As immigration and immigrant birth rates soar while native birth rates rapidly decline, historic components of European law, language, and customs are being altered or abandoned.
Although there was recently a period of unchecked and undocumented U.S. immigration, Americans, unlike European nations, have absorbed wave after wave of immigration into their “melting pot” society. Large numbers of German, Italian, black, Hispanic, Scandinavian, Jewish, Russian, Chinese, and Southeast Asian immigrants have come to the U.S. over two centuries, and while many of them kept their religious, cultural, dietary, ethnic, and even language traditions, they did not attempt to impose them on everyone else.
That is the key difference between the American and European experience, and why, despite many other challenges facing the U.S., its culture is not being suddenly seriously threatened as is happening in Europe.
Of course, every nation, whether a melting pot or a single culture, evolves over time, and is influenced by any significant group of immigrants. But democratic nations of whatever government form become fragile and endangered when their legal, economic, and cultural traditions are suddenly threatened with abrupt nullification or change.
Current attempts to impose “woke” restrictions on discourse, curbs on free speech, or redistributionist, i.e., socialist and neo-Marxist, economic models in the U.S. are so far being rejected, even though they have arisen in some large cities where most voters are Democrats.
There is some indication of grassroots movements in Europe now rising to reclaim their heritages — heritages weakened and endangered by well-meaning liberal leaders and impulses which were unfortunately clueless about the lessons of history.
The question is, will these movements succeed in time to avoid Europe becoming “Euraqistan” or any other erasure of the once glorious and potential future gifts of the best of European civilization?
President Trump has identified the growing crisis in Europe. Now it is up to the Europeans to act.
Herald Boas is a contributor to AMAC Newsline.
Having been attached to NATO Headquarters during the late 1990s for 3 straight tours, one could not miss the mass immigration of Muslims into Europe. The Muslim leaders knew exactly what they were doing as part of their agenda to Muslimnize Western Europe. Europe just sat back and let it happen and are now paying the price for their ignorance. The Muslims started with the little countries and are working slowly on the larger ones and they are very patient and find ways around any delays that are played against them.
Make no mistake, the Muslims are working on our nation as the Biden administration opened up the flood gates with no borders to defend. If the nation as a whole does not wake up soon, our nation will be overturned like Europe.
We already have pockets of those unwilling to assimilate in many of our states. I hope we don’t have to find out the hard way, with another tragedy. Evil people use our own virtues of tolerance and kindness against us.
Well meaning my rear end. The left wants to get rid of Western civilization and replace it with Marxist hell. Hence bring in people who won’t adapt as an invasion force, create chaos, and get the people to demand a strong man to impose order. Worked for Hitler, Mussolini and Lenin.
If Europe becomes Middle Easternized, our western world will be in big trouble. It’s bad enough that we have internal turmoil. I’m too old to see the resulting outcome, but I’d better educate my grandchildren to survive.
No foreigners in public office of any kind, no no no…..
I fully agree. Borders save cultures and countries and lives. Stand strong. Show fairness where fairness is shown in return.
Show strength otherwise. I hope to see it become more than a documented plan, and implemented into full action. It appears that a war of invasion, adding the violence after arriving, has been declared on us. People are systematically dying – not accidents. Urgent for our government to act soon – swift and strong and united.
European citizens, natives of their respective countries, will soon regret not having paid more attention to the machinations of their “leaders.” No one in their right mind will condone the “One World Order” envisioned by the elitists, global corporatists, religious fanatics, dictatorial inclinationatists and all others who intend to destroy the existing social/political arrangements. America is on the same path.
Trumps National Security Strategy is a powerful document, and probably the greatest since the Truman and Eisenhower doctrines. If you haven’t read it, I strongly suggest you do. This AMAC article is well written, and the US needs to become hard nose about who comes into the country. ” …and while many of them kept their religious, cultural, dietary, ethnic, and even language traditions, they did not attempt to impose them on everyone else” says it all. The Somalian situation in Minnesota should be the red flag, siren, and whistle for the rest of the country. I don’t know if you have been following the investigations, but they go very deep. Not only money and drugs but weapons and precursors. Our adversaries are clever, and we only need to remember one of the statements made of how 911 happened…failure of imagination. We need to learn from events of how terrorists operate, and when they are discovered, find a new way. We need to think like they do.
With the criminal open border policy of the previous administration, it will come back to haunt us for years, security wise, financially, and socially. Illegals have no rights, zip, nada. And if you think the liberals in congress are patriots, I just heard today that some of them are proposing legislation that would allow illegals to sue on constitutional grounds.!!! We have a bureaucratic government who meets and committee’s problems to death. Where do you think we would be if there were hearings about how to handle the drug runners in boats? If someone were breaking into your house at night, would you call the police and ask them what you should do, are take action? Those who can, do; those who can’t resist, debate, and ask stupid questions. I would write my congressman and senators, but they are all liberal, and it would fall on deaf ears and/or I get a form letter.
Islam just picked up with immigration, where the Moors, and Turks got stopped in France, Austria and the Balkans. Poitiers, Lepanto, and Vienna meant nothing to an ignorant class of politicians who not just ignored history but was illiterate altogether, only to be faced with islamic aggression in the same vein. Much as American politicians ignored, and continue to ignore the lessons of Thomas Jefferson, the Barbary Wars, the hostage crisis of Tehran, Al Quaeda, Lockerbie, 9/11, and the subsequent atrocities of Hamas, Hezbollah, and ISIS. Islam is not a tolerant religion, and has no intention to play well with others, and it does not respect the equal rights of women. The West has tolerated muslims to the point that it is no longer tolerated by them in their own countries.
Those “well-meaning” liberals in the E U know EXACTLY what they are, and have been doing. New World Order is their plan.World wide Communism is their religion.
The anti-Crusade jihad is fully underway. This time, the Muslims intend to be clever, and use Western secularist pluralism, abandonment of Christian values, and demographic implosion as the means by which they can conquer Europe [AND Canada] from within, without a costly, destructive military invasion that they could lose. Europe must either return to its pre-Napoleonic roots, or be left with the unpleasant alternative of Islamicization and dhimmitude. Unless Russia is careful, they will face the same outcome for similar reasons. The US & UK are also still at risk — Muslims are the fastest growing religious community after the “nones.” We must repent swiftly or regret at leisure.
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I don’t think president Trump knows enough Bible prophecy to understand the monster he is helping create in Europe, the revived Holy Roman Empire. Look what happens historically when Germany has a strong military. That history goes all the way back to their ancient ancestors the Assyrians.