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Trump’s America and a clash of civilisations with Europe
The Financial Times ^ | December 8, 2025 | Gideon Rachman

Posted on 12/08/2025 6:24:31 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

The Trump administration’s new national security strategy has got lousy reviews in Europe. Nonetheless, it is a genuinely interesting document. It attempts to do something very ambitious — which is to redefine national security in civilisational terms.

Conventional takes on national security centre on military and economic imperatives. The new NSS trudges dutifully through these issues. But one senses that the author’s heart is not in it. A passage on the critical issue of Taiwan asserts flatly: “Deterring a conflict over Taiwan . . . is a priority. We will also maintain our longstanding declaratory policy on Taiwan.” That is the very definition of a holding statement.

The document becomes much more energetic and innovative when it turns to civilisational issues. There is clearly a strong racial element to the administration’s definition of civilisation — even if it is not quite spelled out. The first policy priority listed is an end to “mass migration”. The NSS insists: “We must protect our country from invasion . . . from unchecked migration.”

That idea is then extended across the Atlantic to Europe. This is what underpins the NSS’s controversial claim that Europe stands on the brink of “civilisational erasure”. The strategy document argues that: “It is more than plausible that within a few decades at the latest, certain Nato members will become majority non-European.”

This claim feels like what psychologists sometimes call “projection”. It is actually the US that trends in census data suggest will become “majority non-white” by 2045. On current trends, it would be several more decades before Britain or Germany crossed a similar threshold. Nonetheless, to prevent “civilisational erasure” in Europe, the Trump administration proposes: “Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations.” This means supporting nationalist, anti-immigration parties—the Alternative for Germany, France’s National Rally and Britain’s Reform.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: civilization; europe; eurotrash; euroweenies

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1 posted on 12/08/2025 6:24:31 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

This article is written from the point of view of a space alien


2 posted on 12/08/2025 6:58:58 PM PST by ckilmer
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To: MinorityRepublican
There's now a whole swathe of European countries that have called a halt to massive non-European immigration, stretching from Denmark, through Sweden and down through Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary.

They are really not taking more in even if they have trouble booting the existing ones out due to Communists in their court system like we do.

The EU pushed through its migrant force-feeding program, but I think most of these countries will squirm out of it: Poland has already received a 1-year waiver. Others may take them, but step up re-migration an equal amount.

There's more than one way to skin an EU bureaucrat.

3 posted on 12/08/2025 7:01:20 PM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: MinorityRepublican

E pluribus unum is endangered in the USA, but Europe has no such glue in the first place, and is being conquered by the hostile, mostly Moslem “migrants” it’s invited in. Whoever in those countries is resisting this trend, we should support.


4 posted on 12/08/2025 7:01:38 PM PST by Orosius
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Poland already has their hands full with all the Ukrainians that came there.


5 posted on 12/08/2025 7:03:34 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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Hmmm….

I thought the FT said, in effect, that “non-European” was a racist dog-whistle.

I didn’t know Russians and Ukrainians were “those people.”

Some of the biggest bigots I ever met were from Europe.


6 posted on 12/08/2025 7:10:12 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Europe is a bunch of weenies. Nothing civilized about them.


7 posted on 12/08/2025 7:11:14 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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"...The Trump administration’s new national security strategy has got lousy reviews in Europe..."

Oh. The same people wringing their hands over Russian attacks on Ukraine, but buying their energy from Russia to subsidize their attacks...those people?

Those are the people whose opinions on National Security Strategy we are supposed to somehow feel slighted by? Those people?


8 posted on 12/08/2025 7:17:48 PM PST by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

It appears too late to reverse the loss of Western Europe. Thankfully Eastern Europe has stopped the invasion cold in its tracks. But soon radical Islam will control the EU power structure and eventually nuclear weapons. They will definitely use them.


9 posted on 12/08/2025 7:17:56 PM PST by CircleCityHamburgerMan (Between grace and mercy, there is no doubt mercy has been the greatest gift I've received.)
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True: I think they got another 50K the past couple of months.

This, of course, hasn't dissuaded the EU bureaucrats.

I would predict that, one way or another, Poland refuses to take any non-European migrants. Taking them in would be political suicide for the current government.

10 posted on 12/08/2025 7:23:14 PM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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Hopefully President Nawrocki will hold Tusk’s feet to the fire.


11 posted on 12/08/2025 7:26:08 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: MinorityRepublican

That idea is then extended across the Atlantic to Europe. This is what underpins the NSS’s controversial claim that Europe stands on the brink of “civilisational erasure”. The strategy document argues that: “It is more than plausible that within a few decades at the latest, certain Nato members will become majority non-European.”

This claim feels like what psychologists sometimes call “projection”. It is actually the US that trends in census data suggest will become “majority non-white” by 2045.


FT completely misses the point

it aint about non-white


12 posted on 12/08/2025 7:57:16 PM PST by joshua c
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To: ckilmer
Nonetheless, to prevent “civilisational erasure” in Europe, the Trump administration proposes: “Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations.” This means supporting nationalist, anti-immigration parties...

Civilisational erasure... great term. Trump gets it.

13 posted on 12/08/2025 7:58:07 PM PST by GOPJ (Soros & democrats back criminals, dope dealers, illegals & terrorists. <P><I><B><big><center></B>)
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Its ft that’s projecting. Nowhere else on earth is “hispanic” (not a race) considered “non White”. Many people from Latin/South America are in fact, White.

Also, Latin and South America are overwhelmingly Christian. That does not remotely compare to all the Muslims flooding into Europe. Also, the Trump administration will have gotten about 2.5 million out of the country in the first year while illegal immigration was almost completely stopped. Where is the great deportation success story in Europe? America’s civilization is not in danger of collapse. It is impossible to say the same about Western Europe.


14 posted on 12/08/2025 8:57:04 PM PST by FLT-bird
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“The strategy document argues that: “It is more than plausible that within a few decades at the latest, certain Nato members will become majority non-European.” This claim feels like what psychologists sometimes call “projection”. It is actually the US that trends in census data suggest will become “majority non-white” by 2045.”

First point - it’s not the US or Europe, it’s both, except the leader of the US understands that is trying to slow it down. In Europe they JAIL people who bring up the subject.

Second Point - How do they plan to prevent their hostile minorities from taking over - and they can do this with far less than 50% of the population (think of their boat people, virtually all fighting aged men)? Do they plan to spay and neuter them? Somehow I doubt it.


15 posted on 12/08/2025 8:59:21 PM PST by BobL (Trusting one's doctor is the #1 health mistake one can make.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Sure why worry about it if it will take a few more decades for Europe to become Muslim Middle Eastern.

Stupid jackasses. All this was 100% unnecessary.


16 posted on 12/08/2025 9:16:35 PM PST by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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The intelligent policy would be to make them convert but oh no we don’t do that kind of stuff, only they do that kind of stuff.


17 posted on 12/08/2025 9:17:41 PM PST by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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You know what? Time to say it out loud, the year I was born America was 88% white. Christianity was our culture, people dressed nicely and America was very free.

I want that back. I do not want us to be Hindu, Chinese, Afghan, Palestinian, Ukrainian, South American etc. I know we will never get back to what we had.... but we need a hard stop to this crap.

The reason I don’t care about saying it out loud anymore? When they finally kill America and Europe with deliberate mass migration there is nowhere else to go and live a life of historic American culture. That is a culture of white Europeans, our black Christian brethren who put on a Thanksgiving like all of us, and our American Hispanics who are decorated in the American military out of all proportion to their numbers.

Tired of the middle east immigrants, Indians, Pakis, Chinamen, etc.


18 posted on 12/08/2025 9:53:40 PM PST by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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Ukrainians killed a huge number of Poles, 60,000 or so. And did it with bats, pitchforks and axes.


19 posted on 12/08/2025 9:56:17 PM PST by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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It was more like 100,000.


20 posted on 12/08/2025 9:57:36 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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