The White House quietly unveiled President Donald Trump’s new national security strategy on Thursday. The strategy is a 33-page document that reinforces the president’s “America First” philosophy and sets out the administration’s realignment of U.S. foreign policy. This document took an unprecedented confrontational stance towards Europe.
The strategy accuses European authorities of blocking U.S.-backed efforts to end the conflict. It also removed language from previous administrations that described Russia as a threat, stating that European countries view Moscow as an “existential threat” and making the United States the central intermediary for re-establishing “conditions for internal European stability and strategic stability with Russia.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov appeared to praise the strategy, praising the US president as “strong”.
The document formalizes some of the administration’s previous criticisms of Europe. In a speech in Munich, Germany, in February, Vice President J.D. Vance told European leaders that the greatest threat to national security does not come from China or Russia, but “from within.”
Following the document’s release, President Donald Trump criticized Zelenskiy yesterday after talks between U.S. and Ukrainian negotiators over the weekend ended with few new developments.
“We’ve been talking with (Russian) President Putin (Vladimir) and we’ve been talking with the leaders of Ukraine, including President Zelensky, and I have to say I’m a little disappointed that President Zelensky hasn’t read the proposal yet as of a few hours ago,” Trump said.
He said Russia wanted all of Ukraine and believed Russia was “ok” with the peace plan, but added: “I don’t know if Mr. Zelensky is in favor of it.”
