The Trump strategy statement may have its flaws, but it faces Europe's central crisis, writes The Post Editorial Board. AP

If nothing else, President Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy tells some hard truths about our European friends: They are indeed facing “civilizational erasure.”

It’s not just that Western Europe’s economies have barely grown these last 20 years, nor that birthrates are far below replacement while immigration is transforming politics and culture; it’s also that the continent’s elites are focused not on fixing any of this, but on suppressing dissent about the policies that are destroying these nations.

“We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence, and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation,” the docum

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