Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy , which formalizes the ideological shift that U.S. foreign policy has taken under Trump 2.0, has won praise in Moscow but stunned European allies.

Indeed, the strategy document, which was published on December 4, 2025, sent political shock waves through the whole of Europe as European leaders and political analysts grasped how Trump’s radical reconception of U.S. foreign policy is now being applied to Europe and its leaders — namely, by reshaping Europe’s political landscape through open support for far right European parties.

Brando Benifei , a member of the European Parliament for the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats and chair of the European Union’s (EU) Delegation for Relations with the U.S., responded by saying tha

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