Trump Has Pulled the US Back from the ‘Role of World Leadership’ | Former Defence Secretary

Dec 28, 2025 | "It’s not an administration that has a lot of guideposts. It’s basically operating by the seat of their pants.”

Former US Secretary of Defence joins Times Radio’s Adam Boulton to discuss how issues around the strategy from the Trump’s administration, how Trump has “failed” to stand up to Putin during the Ukraine war and the escalating tensions between the US and Venezuela.

Trump Turns His Back on Europe – Formally, In Writing | Face to Face

Dec 5, 2025 | President Trump’s new National Security Strategy lands with a jolt in Europe. NATO enlargement is off the table, the EU is blamed for holding the continent back, and Washington shifts its focus away from Europe altogether. Russia barely appears in the document. China dominates. And Trump openly signals support for nationalist forces inside the EU.

We look at what this means for Europe’s security, Ukraine’s war effort, and NATO’s role in the years ahead. We also examine the tense fight over frozen Russian assets, Belgium’s hesitation, and Washington’s behind-the-scenes pressure. Join Diana Skaya and Michał Broniatowski, TVP World's editor-in-chief, for this week's Face to Face.

Trump Is 'Away with the Fairies' So Europe Must Step Up

Dec 18, 2025 | "We in Europe have got to step up up but that’s going to be very expensive."

Europe has got to be ready to deal with "hooligan Russia" as Trump grows increasingly "flaky", says The Times's Matthew Parris.

What's America's Beef with Europe? | LBC

Dec 6, 2025 | America should "cultivate resistance" in Europe as the continent is subverting democracy, blocking a Ukraine peace deal and facing "civilisational erasure" because of mass migration, according to the new national security document.

The first strategy since Donald Trump returned to the presidency is a targeted challenge to the European Union, claiming it ideologically divided to the US and "undermines sovereignty". It also sets out America's changing approach to Russia and China.

Ali Miraj is joined by Sir Robin Niblett, former director and chief executive of Chatham House, to discuss why some in the Trump administration are so concerned about the state of Europe.

A Continent of Power: Does Europe Know Its True Strength? | To The Point

Dec 11, 2025 | Europe – harassed and economically sidelined by the US and China. Is this picture accurate? Or does the continent have far more to offer than self-doubt?

Why Trump Shouldn’t Give Advice to Europe

Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

Trump's New National Security Strategy Turns Friends into Foes

Dec 13, 2025 | President Trump’s anger with Ukraine and his propensity to support Russia puts him at odds with British, French and German counterparts. But his new national security strategy suggests America’s traditional allies are actually foes, not friends.

Trump Administration Threatens Europe & Throws Longstanding International Alliance into Turmoil

Dec 13, 2025 | US National Security Strategy has been turned on its head. Allies are now enemies and enemies are now allies. And the world will be far less safe as a result.

Trump's Gangster Peace Demands Are a Mockery of Just, Durable Peace

Dec 13, 2025 | Sir Richard Shirreff is Co-founder and Managing Partner at Strategia Worldwide. After graduating from Oxford, he served in the British Army for 37 years commanding soldiers on operations or in combat at every level from platoon to division and rising to the highest rank before retiring from the Army as NATO’s Deputy Supreme Commander Europe. In 2016 his novel ‘2017: War with Russia’ was published in the UK, USA, and Poland. He is an honorary Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.

Donald Trump Is Pursuing Regime Change – in Europe

THE GUARDIAN — OPINION The US made it clear this week that it plans to help the parties of the European far right gain power. Keir Starmer and his fellow leaders have to face this new reality

When are we going to get the message? I joked a few months back that, when it comes to Donald Trump, Europe needs to learn from Sex and the City’s Miranda Hobbes and realise that “He’s just not that into you”. After this past week, it’s clear that understates the problem. Trump’s America is not merely indifferent to Europe – it’s positively hostile to it. That has enormous implications for the continent and for Britain, which too many of our leaders still refuse to face.

The depth of US hostility was revealed most explicitly in the new US national security strategy, or NSS, a 29-page document that serves as a formal statement of the foreign policy of the second Trump administration. There is much there to lament, starting with the sceptical quote marks that appear around the sole reference to “climate change”, but the most striking passages are those that take aim at Europe.

China and Russia, which you’d think the US would see as genuine strategic threats worthy of serious attention, are addressed flatly and with relative brevity. It’s Europe that gets Team Trump’s blood up, against Europe that it unleashes its rhetorical firepower. It warns that economic stagnation, “censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates” and above all, migration, raise “the stark prospect of civilizational erasure”. » | Jonathan Freedland | Friday, December 12, 2025

It’s America that needs regime change, not Europe! — © Mark Alexander

Has Europe Got Any Influence over President Trump? | DW News

Dec 12, 2025 | Recent developments in the war in Ukraine have left European countries wondering if they have any influence on President Trump. Last Friday, Washington released a new National Security Strategy criticising Europe. US President Trump said this week that some European leaders are stupid. There is also those Russian funds frozen in Belgium. On Friday the EU indefinitely froze the money to ensure Russia-friendly governments in Hungary and Slovakia do not prevent the money from being used to help Ukraine. Russia's central bank is suing the Belgium-based Euroclear, the bank that holds most of those assets, claiming freezing the assets is illegal. On Friday Belgium's prime minister visited Downing Street in London where he was lobbied to end Belgium's resistance to using the assets for Ukraine's benefit. Brussels fears it will be left to repay the money to Russia when the war in Ukraine ends.

NATO Leader Warns: Russia Could Go to War with Europe within Years, Says Mark Rutte

Dec 13, 2025 | NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has issued a stark warning about the growing risk of a direct war between Russia and NATO. In this video, we break down Rutte’s comments, why NATO leaders are increasingly concerned, and what this could mean for Europe and global security. Rutte highlights Russia’s military buildup, long-term intentions, and the urgent need for NATO countries to strengthen defense spending and preparedness.

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Trump Is ‘Incredibly Naïve’ about Putin | Edwina Currie

Dec 12, 2025 | “Trump is incredibly naive and he buys into whatever version of global politics Putin is peddling.”

Trump’s approach reflects an ‘incredibly naive’ acceptance of Putin’s worldview and fails to see how Moscow has actively worked to destabilise Europe, says Edwina Currie.


We should NEVER have been so stupid as to leave the EU in the first place. A blind man could have seen this CRAP coming at the time! — © Mark Alexander

Sabotages, vandalisme, espionnage, désinformation : ces opérations russes secrètes pour déstabiliser l'Europe

LE FIGARO : CARTE - Au-delà des incursions répétées dans l'espace aérien de plusieurs États européens ces dernières semaines, Moscou mène une véritable «guerre hybride» visant les infrastructures critiques et les sociétés des pays soutiens de l'Ukraine. » | Par Arthur Bijotat et Dario Ingiusto pour Fig Data | Publié le 12 décembre 2025

Trump's Security Strategy Makes Clear He Is Trying to 'Break' the European Union

Dec 12, 2025 | "People are quite shocked about the brazen way that that goal has been made clear in the security strategy."

A still classified version of the US national security strategy makes clear that a "cental part of Trump's plan" is about getting involved in European politics and breaking up the EU, says founder and Director of European Council on foreign relations, Mark Leonard.


Trump wants to break up the EU to weaken each country. In so doing, he will strengthen America. This is a perfect example of one of the oldest tricks in the playbook: divide and rule. In addition, he is doing his buddy Putin a great favour. The weaker Europe will become, the easier it will be to invade. Donald Trump is truly a treacherous man. He is a man full to the brim with bitterness, rancour, and stupidity. — © Mark Alexander

Donald Trump Wants a Europe In Chaos – a Sure Sign for Britain to Shore Up Its Democracy

THE GUARDIAN — OPINION: With the US threatening to support ‘patriotic’ parties here, we need better defences, starting with tough new rules about political donations

The new threat is so dizzyingly bizarre that Europe, and especially Britain, is slow to believe it. The US declares itself our enemy. Europe emerges as its main adversary in the US national security strategy. Russia is its friend, not us. Everything that looked solid since the second world war is turned upside down; the land of the free becomes the destroyer of democratic values. Appeasement fails.

He may ramble, but Donald Trump speaks plainly. He means what he says, and he hates everything European. Except its emerging “patriotic” parties, which he wants to support. His strategy warns of “civilizational erasure”, claiming Europe will soon “become majority non-European” and parroting the racist conspiracy known as the great replacement theory. Describing Europeans as “weak”, “decaying” and “destroying their countries”, with “real stupid” leaders, Trump responded to the question of whether they would still be allies, in a Politico interview, with a hint of threat: “It depends.”

Note this: the official US strategy says that “the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed gives cause for great optimism”. He is what he is, in plain sight. No more pretending his fickle ways can be reversed. He appears to back the EU’s nativists, which his strategy suggests are “political allies”. Why wouldn’t he? British politics is already under threat from Russian and Chinese hacking and interference, as in the case of Reform’s former Welsh leader – who has been jailed for taking Russian bribes. Expect electoral threats from the US from now on. Trump regards Europe’s vain struggle to protect itself – via its Digital Services Act – from the worst excesses of US tech giants as an act of treachery. » | Polly Toynbee | Friday, December 12, 2025

Thom Hartmann: Is Trump’s Alliance with Putin the Greatest Betrayal in American History?

Dec 11, 2025 | Donald Trump is realigning American power away from our democratic allies and toward Russia and other authoritarian regimes. From abandoning Ukraine to pushing a Kremlin friendly National Security Strategy and undercutting NATO, the pattern is unmistakable. This is a five alarm warning for democracy in America and Europe. Do you see this as the greatest betrayal in modern US history?

How German Politicians Are Responding to the US National Security Strategy | DW News

Dec 10, 2025 | The new US national security strategy has sent shockwaves through Europe. It signals a major shift in US–EU relations and urges Europe to take primary responsibility for its own defense. DW’s political correspondent Simon Young speaks with Metin Hakverdi, the German government’s coordinator for transatlantic cooperation, and Boris Mijatovic, a member of the German parliament, about what this strategy means for US–EU relations and the future of the transatlantic partnership.

Trump Attacks Europe in Blunt Politico Interview | DW News

Dec 11, 2025 | In an interview with Politico, US President Donald Trump dismisses the continent as decaying and weak, as a place he doesn't even really like. His words underscore a new US national security strategy released last Friday which wants to improve America’s relationship with Russia.

New US Security Strategy Is ‘Giant Middle Finger to Europe’

Donald Trump is a TRAITOROUS BUFFOON.