What Trump's vision of the new world order means for Europe
BBC••general
Key Points:
- The new US National Security Strategy (NSS) marks a departure from America's post-World War II commitment to a "rules-based international order," signaling a shift towards prioritizing sovereign nation-states over supranational institutions and shared democratic values.
- The NSS criticizes Europe's "current trajectory," expressing doubts about the reliability of some European NATO members and emphasizing the importance of national sovereignty, while endorsing support for patriotic European parties to resist this trajectory.
- The strategy reasserts US dominance in the Western Hemisphere, exemplified by recent actions in Venezuela and aims to counter China's growing influence in Latin America, particularly concerning control of the Panama Canal.
- Europe faces a difficult choice as it cannot fully rely on the US while lacking the immediate capacity for
