Judy Dempsey
Whatever European officials may say about it, U.S. President Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy (NSS) is good news for Europe. Europe and the rest of the world now know how poorly this U.S. administration regards them and they cannot keep pretending otherwise.
The NSS is not about values. It is not about supporting democracy. It is not about defending principles that the Europeans have taken for granted since the end of World War II. It is about projecting power that should reflect American economic interests. Full stop.
In foreign policy terms, that definition of a power is based on a transactional premise that should benefit Americans and authoritarian regimes. For the latter, conditionality has taken on a new meaning: deliver goods and stability—not human rights (and often hectoring) which is a European criterion. As the NSS states: “The United States will prioritize commercial diplomacy.”
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