The new US security strategy

Fredrik Reinfeldt on Trump's new security strategy: "Alarm clock for Europe"

Sweden's former Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt is concerned about several things in the new security strategy that the US presented earlier this week. In an interview with SvD, he says that the country under Trump is moving away from a value-based world order and towards a geographically divided one.

It is also an "alarm clock for Europe", he believes. The US is putting "unreasonably" much faith in Russia and its way of thinking.

Reinfeldt also thinks that parts of it are completely racist and "reflect a right-wing authoritarian view based on the theory of people exchange", the newspaper writes.

Shock in diplomatic circles: "The relationship with the US will never be the same again"

There is a gloomy atmosphere among European diplomats in the US after Donald Trump's new security strategy was published last week, writes Politico based on conversations with several anonymous Europeans serving in Washington.

A person who, according to the site, represents a medium-sized European country says that the “Western alliance” has been completely scrapped.

– The relationship will never be the same again.

The strategy released at the end of last week claims that Europe is heading towards “civilizational annihilation”, due to non-European immigration, among other things, and that the EU is challenging the “sovereignty” of individual countries.

The security strategy – it’s about the point

• The new US national security strategy describes Europe as threatened by “civilizational annihilation” due to immigration, low birth rates and threats to freedom of expression.
• In the strategy, the US tones down the rhetoric against Russia and instead calls for limited cooperation, which is welcomed by the Kremlin.
• Several European leaders are critical, including German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. He says that parts of the strategy are “unacceptable”.
• European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen rejects US suggestion of influencing European elections, stressing that only the people of Europe should decide their leaders.
• The French and German far-right parties National Rally and AfD have expressed their support for the strategy.
• A leaked version of the strategy mentioned that the US should work to get Austria, Hungary, Italy and Poland to leave the EU.