Simon Marks Says 'The US No Longer Has Europe's Back' | LBC

Dec 8, 2025 | Donald Trump has released a new security strategy for the US, which has been fully backed by the Kremlin.

James O'Brien is joined by LBC Washington correspondent, Simon Marks, to fully explain the situation and assess what this could mean for the UK and Europe's future.


Donald Trump is a mentally-challenged AH! He belongs in an old folks’ home! — © Mark Alexander

America’s New Doctrine: Europe on Its Own | David Dunn

Dec 5, 2025 | The newly released 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy signals a shift in Washington’s approach to Europe and NATO.

It emphasizes burden-sharing, questions the value of NATO’s open-door policy, and reframes Europe’s challenges through a domestic lens. With growing focus on the Western Hemisphere and Indo-Pacific, what does this mean for transatlantic security?

Steve Rosenberg: “Trump’s Not Their Daddy Anymore.” Russian Paper on Europe, over New US National Security Strategy

Dec 8, 2025 | Today’s Russian papers are loving America's new national security strategy. One Russian paper on implications for Europe: “Trump isn’t their Daddy anymore.” Kremlin spokesman is quoted as saying: “The adjustments in the updated strategy correspond in many ways to our vision”

Trump: EU ‘Bigger Threat’ to US than Russia

Dec 8, 2025 | “The national security strategy released last Thursday was a huge repudiation of the national security strategy that Trump put out eight years ago.”

Trump has moved away from his previous position that Russia is a revisionist power that seeks to undercut the American position, says former US ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer.

Kremlin Hails Trump’s National Security Strategy as Aligned with Russia’s Vision

THE GUARDIAN: Moscow welcomes White House document critical of the EU as talks to end the Ukraine war enter a key phase

The Kremlin has heaped praise on Donald Trump’s latest national security strategy, calling it an encouraging change of policy that largely aligns with Russian thinking.

The remarks follow the publication of a White House document on Friday that criticises the EU and says Europe is at risk of “civilisational erasure”, while making clear the US is keen to establish better relations with Russia.

“The adjustments that we see correspond in many ways to our vision,” the Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said on Sunday. He welcomed signals that the Trump administration was “in favour of dialogue and building good relations”. He warned, however, that the supposed US “deep state” could try to sabotage Trump’s vision.

It came as the White House’s efforts to push through a peace deal in Ukraine enter a key phase. US officials claim they are in the final stage of reaching an agreement, but there is little sign that either Ukraine or Russia is willing to sign the framework deal drawn up by Trump’s negotiating team. » | Shaun Walker in Kyiv | Sunday, December 7, 2025

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Aaron Parnas: Trump Abandons America and Sides with Russia in Stunning Decision

Dec 7, 2025 | Aaron Parnas reports on the major news that Donald Trump has abandoned America and sided with Russia in a stunning foreign policy decision.

Putin Will ‘Exploit’ Trump’s Weakness on Europe | Ben Wallace

Dec 6, 2025 | “Where there is weakness, he will exploit it.”

Putin will see Trump’s strategy as showing he is “no longer interested” in supporting Europe, and he will use that against the West, says former UK defence secretary Ben Wallace.

Trump's Neo-Nazi Security Strategy Document Shocks European Allies as America Aligns with Far Right

Dec 6, 2025 | The White House has released a controversial new National Security Strategy (NSS) that marks a major realignment of U.S. foreign policy under the "America First" banner. The document lays out Trump's vision for ensuring America's "dominance" in the Western Hemisphere, cultivating "resistance" within Europe, reestablishing "strategic stability" with Russia, and accepting Middle Eastern leaders "as they are." Current and former European officials are already pushing back against the strategy's assertions regarding European alliances and demographics.

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Is Trump’s Strategy a Win for Russia? | Piotr Kaszuwara

Dec 7, 2025 | Piotr Kaszuwara, President of the UA Future Foundation, warns that Trump’s new security strategy could embolden Russia, leaving Ukraine vulnerable while Europe scrambles for answers.

"Trump Has Driven a Permanent Wedge between U.S. and European Security" | Gerlinde Niehus

Dec 5, 2025 | Europe is facing the fallout of the explosive security roadmap released by the Donald Trump White House that claims the continent is on the brink of civilizational collapse and effectively rules out the growth of the NATO alliance.

To discuss, TVP World was joined for an exclusive interview by Gerlinde Niehus, Former NATO Deputy Director for Defense and Security Cooperation.

Trump’s Security Shift: NATO at a Crossroads | David DeBatto

Dec 7, 2025 | David DeBatto, geopolitical analyst and retired U.S. Army counterintelligence officer, breaks down Trump’s new security strategy—ending NATO’s open-door policy and urging Europe to stand alone.

Trump Is ‘Abandoning Europe’: Security Strategy Sparks Alarm in Ukraine

Dec 7, 2025 | “The Americans are going to commit geopolitical suicide.”

Trump’s national security strategy sets out how he is prioritising America’s interests, but is “abandoning Europe” in doing so, says Alexander Khara, a former advisor to the minister of defence in Ukraine.

Under Trump Doctrine Europe Is the Enemy Blocking Relations with Russia!

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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 a 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.

Controversial New U.S. Strategy | Scott Lucas

Dec 6, 2025 | Europe risks civilizational erasure"—a line from the Trump administration’s newly released National Security Strategy—has prompted firm pushback from European leaders and renewed debate over the direction of transatlantic policy.

With Washington signaling a halt to NATO enlargement, a reduced military presence in Europe, and harsher demands of its allies, the document is under close scrutiny across the continent.

Trump Lays Bare His Contempt for Europe in Blistering New National Security Plan

Dec 6, 2025 | "America Alone" might be the simplest précis of the White House's new National Security Strategy, an extraordinary document released that starkly lays out the administration's broad foreign policy priorities.

Trump has absolutely no understanding of geopolitics. America is no longer a responsible leader of the free world. — © Mark Alexander

Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’

THE NEW YORK TIMES: America’s goal should be “to help Europe correct its current trajectory,” the administration said in its new National Security Strategy.

The Trump administration said on Friday that Europe is facing the “stark prospect of civilizational erasure” and pledged that the United States will support like-minded “patriotic” parties across the continent to prevent a future in which “certain NATO members will become majority non-European.”

The dark assessment of Europe’s future was released overnight as part of an annual update to the United States’ national security strategy around the world.

Without naming them directly, the document says the United States should support political parties in Europe that fight against migration and promote nationalism. That describes several right wing populist parties like Reform U.K. in Britain and the Alternative for Germany, known as the A.F.D., which has been classified as an extremist party by German intelligence services.

“In everything we do, we are putting America First,” Mr. Trump wrote in a foreword to the document, which he called a “road map to ensure that America remains the greatest and most successful nation in human history.”

In a section called “Promoting European Greatness,” the document offers a searing critique of America’s closest allies.

It warns that Europe is on a path to becoming “unrecognizable” because of migration policies that it claims are undermining the national identities of European countries. And it said that it should be the policy of the United States to help Europe “correct its current trajectory” over the course of the next several decades. » | Michael D. Shear, Jeanna Smialek and Lara Jakes | Michael D. Shear reported from London, Jeanna Smialek from Berlin and Lara Jakes from Rome. | Friday, December 5, 2025

FFS, Trump, keep your beak out of Europe’s affairs! We Europeans know how to deal with out own issues and problems, we don’t need a man with dementia to tell us how we should run our nations, our continent. By the way, news from America shows us Europeans that you are struggling to run your own country! — © Mark Alexander

Half of Europeans See Trump as Enemy of Europe, Survey Finds

THE GUARDIAN: Nine-country poll finds half of people believe risk of war with Russia is high and three-quarters want to stay in EU

Nearly half of Europeans see Donald Trump as “an enemy of Europe”, rather more rate the risk of war with Russia as high and more than two-thirds believe their country would not be able to defend itself in the event of such a war, a survey has found.

The nine-country poll for the Paris-based European affairs debate platform Le Grand Continent also found that nearly three-quarters of respondents wanted their country to stay in the EU, with almost as many saying leaving the union had harmed the UK.

Jean-Yves Dormagen, a political science professor and founder of the polling agency Cluster17, said: “Europe is not only facing growing risks, it is also undergoing a transformation of its historical, geopolitical and political environment. The overall picture [of the survey] portrays a Europe that is anxious, that is deeply aware of its vulnerabilities and that is struggling to project itself positively into the future.”

The polling found that an average of 48% of people across the nine countries see Trump as an outright foe – ranging from highs of 62% in Belgium and 57% in France to lows of 37% in Croatia and 19% in Poland. » | Jon Henley, Europe correspondent | Thursday, December 4, 2025

Enemy of Europe? That’s EXACTLY what Trump is! The sooner he is kicked out of office, the better! The better it will be for Europe, the better it will be for America, and the better it will be for the world. — © Mark Alexander

Putin Accuses Europe of Blocking US Efforts to End War in Ukraine

THE GUARDIAN: Russian president says European demands ‘not acceptable’ as key talks begin in Moscow with Witkoff and Kushner

Vladimir Putin has accused Europe of standing in the way of US efforts to end the war in Ukraine, as he began key talks in the Kremlin with Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff, and the US president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.

Witkoff, on his sixth trip to Moscow this year, is to present Putin with an updated version of a US peace proposal drafted with input from a senior Russian official and reworked to make it more acceptable to Kyiv.

The two Trump allies arrived in Moscow on Tuesday after meeting Ukrainian officials at the weekend in Florida to discuss revisions to the original 28-point peace plan, which overwhelmingly favoured Moscow.

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on a diplomatic push to rally support among European capitals that have backed changes to the original plan, said in Paris that the updated version of the proposal “looks better” but emphasised it was “not over yet”.

Moments before the closed-door meeting with Witkoff and Kushner, Putin made a series of hard-edged remarks. Speaking to reporters at the Kremlin, he accused European governments of sabotaging the peace process and said that “European demands” on ending the war in Ukraine were “not acceptable to Russia”.

“Europe is preventing the US administration from achieving peace on Ukraine,” Putin said, adding: “Russia does not intend to fight Europe, but if Europe starts, we are ready right now.” » | Pjotr Sauer | Tuesday, December 2, 2025

'Washington Sees Europe as Inconsequential,' Former US Commanding General in Europe Tells Euronews

Dec 1, 2025 | 'Washington sees Europe as inconsequential,' former US commanding general in Europe tells Euronews.

In an interview with Euronews’ flagship morning show Europe Today, former commanding general of US Army Europe General Ben Hodges warned that the continent is “slowly waking to the realisation” that it cannot count on the US as a fair partner.