Trump’s shock therapy for Europe

Published December 30, 2025 6:00am ET



President Donald Trump’s national strategy document “upends” America’s long-standing policy toward European nations, which have been this country’s closest allies for a century or more.

The president and his lieutenants focus on Europe’s feckless immigration policies, chronic unwillingness to pay for its own defense, its weakness in defending the Western values that undergird democratic freedom, and even its moves actively to undermine them and erase their identities and cultures.

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