On this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler dive into how President Donald Trump’s newly revealed national security strategy statement takes Europe to task. They also ask the question, “Will Western civilization in Europe be around in 100 years?”
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Jack Fowler: We’ll talk about Europe. And we’ll start off with [President] Donald Trump’s latest national security strategy statement. I’m looking at today’s New York Post, which has an article on it.
And here’s what the statement says: “We want Europe to remain European, regain its civilizational self-confidence and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation,” reads the Trump-signed document that was posted online yesterday from the day we’re speaking.
“We will oppose elite-driven anti-democratic restrictions on core liberties in Europe, the Anglosphere, and the rest of the democratic world, especially among our allies.”
The report says, “We reject the disastrous climate change and net zero ideologies that have so greatly harmed Europe, threaten the United States and subsidize our adversaries.” There’s much more to this report. Victor, what are your thoughts on this?
Victor Davis Hanson: Well, I read the report, and everybody’s angry about it because it didn’t have the usual boilerplate, “The United States is going to partner with our European allies and strengthen NATO, our role of the U.N. is essential, we need to increase our foreign aid to get the message about democracy abroad to our brothers in Africa and Asia, and we’re working with our partners” and that kind of stuff.
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