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Here it is: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-N...

Discussion:

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/breaking-down-trumps-2025...

https://www.chathamhouse.org/2025/12/trumps-new-national-sec...

The points on Europe are:

> Our broad policy for Europe should prioritize:

> • Reestablishing conditions of stability within Europe and strategic stability with Russia;

> • Enabling Europe to stand on its own feet and operate as a group of aligned sovereign nations, including by taking primary responsibility for its own defense, without being dominated by any adversarial power;

> • Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations;

> • Opening European markets to U.S. goods and services and ensuring fair treatment of U.S. workers and businesses;

> • Building up the healthy nations of Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe through commercial ties, weapons sales, political collaboration, and cultural and educational exchanges;

> • Ending the perception, and preventing the reality, of NATO as a perpetually expanding alliance; and

> • Encouraging Europe to take action to combat mercantilist overcapacity, technological theft, cyber espionage, and other hostile economic practices

This is aligned with what Russia wants. Russia has cultivated Trump as an ally and it appears to be working.

The US is explicit in its intention to meddle with and undermine Europe by "cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations" and celebrates "the growing influence of patriotic European parties" (i.e. authoritarian, right-wing parties like AfD).

The US is explicitly attempting to annex European territory. Trump says the US will take Greenland "one way or the other". The US has been caught running an influence campaign in Greenland trying to promote its secession from Denmark: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j9l08902eo

Given American's new direction, de-Americanising your infrastructure and supply chains makes sense. It's sensible risk reduction.