The 2025 National Security Strategy Rightly Warns Europe To Stop Civilizational Erasure |
Col. Bill Connor ——Bio and Archives--December 29, 2025
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The Trump Administration’s new National Security Strategy (NSS) has raised the ire of the progressive European establishment. In the 2025 NSS, under “Promoting European Greatness”, Europe is warned of the “stark prospect of civilizational erasure” due to “migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence.” (National Security Strategy of the United States of America)
This NSS points out that “Continental Europe has been losing share of global GDP—down from 25 percent in 1990 to 14 percent today” and that “it is far from obvious whether certain European countries will have economies and militaries strong enough to remain reliable allies. Many of these nations are currently doubling down on their present path.” These are stark warnings for what was the most powerful continent, in most respects, from at least the 1600s until the mid-1900s. The ultimate cause of Europe’s many problems is loss of faith; faith in the........