Leaked Trump Strategy Calls for Pulling Italy Hungary Poland Austria Out of EU

A leaked Trump Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Strat­e­gy doc­u­ment report­ed­ly calls for pulling four coun­tries from the Euro­pean Union. On 11 Decem­ber 2025, Yahoo News report­ed that a longer ver­sion of the strat­e­gy cir­cu­lat­ed before White House unclas­si­fied 29-page doc­u­ment lists Italy, Hun­gary, Poland, and Aus­tria as coun­tries the US should work with “the goal of pulling them away from the [Euro­pean Union].” The arti­cle begins:

The Trump admin­is­tra­tion intends to pull four coun­tries away from the Euro­pean Union (EU), accord­ing to a leaked copy of the US Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Strat­e­gy (NSS). The offi­cial NSS, released on Dec 4, warned that Europe faced “civil­i­sa­tion­al era­sure” if it did not cut migra­tion and would be “unrecog­nis­able in 20 years or less” if present trends con­tin­ued. But a longer ver­sion of the strat­e­gy, which was report­ed­ly cir­cu­lat­ed before the White House unclas­si­fied the 29-page doc­u­ment, is more explic­it about how the US can “Make Europe Great Again”. The White House denied the longer ver­sion exist­ed, call­ing reports “fake news”.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-moves-pull-italy-hungary-193254769.html

Key Points

• Leaked doc­u­ment report­ed­ly states US “should sup­port par­ties, move­ments, and intel­lec­tu­al and cul­tur­al fig­ures who seek sov­er­eign­ty and preservation/restoration of tra­di­tion­al Euro­pean ways of life…while remain­ing pro-Amer­i­can,” with offi­cial NSS call­ing to “cul­ti­vate resis­tance to Europe’s cur­rent tra­jec­to­ry with­in Euro­pean nations” eye­ing “grow­ing influ­ence of patri­ot­ic Euro­pean parties.”
• Patri­ot­ic Euro­pean par­ties pre­sumed to include Marine Le Pen Nation­al Ral­ly in France, Vox in Spain, Reform UK, AfD in Ger­many, and Gior­gia Mel­oni Broth­ers of Italy, with Trump prais­ing Mel­oni as “a fan­tas­tic woman” who had “tak­en Europe by storm” and describ­ing her as “beau­ti­ful” dur­ing the Mid­dle East peace sum­mit in Egypt in October.
• Trump endorsed Vik­tor Orbán before Hun­gary’s elec­tions next year, describ­ing him as “fan­tas­tic” and grant­i­ng Hun­gary an exemp­tion from sanc­tions for buy­ing Russ­ian oil and gas, with Orbán vis­it­ing the White House in Novem­ber and Trump wel­com­ing him as a close ally.
• Pope Leo XIV crit­i­cized White House­’s effort to “break apart” the US-Euro­pean alliance, stat­ing, “seek­ing a peace agree­ment with­out includ­ing Europe in the talks is unre­al­is­tic,” and warned that the Trump admin­is­tra­tion’s com­ments “make a huge change in what was for many, many years a true alliance between Europe and the Unit­ed States.”

Trump Administration Forges Unprecedented Ties with European National Conservative Parties

The Trump admin­is­tra­tion has forged unprece­dent­ed insti­tu­tion­al ties with Euro­pean nation­al con­ser­v­a­tive par­ties through a coor­di­nat­ed net­work of con­fer­ences, think tanks, and direct polit­i­cal inter­ven­tions. Vik­tor Orbán’s Hun­gary serves as the oper­a­tional cen­ter of the Glob­al Nation­al Con­ser­v­a­tive Alliance (GNCA), unit­ing right-wing forces under shared prin­ci­ples of nation­al sov­er­eign­ty, cul­tur­al iden­ti­ty, and oppo­si­tion to supra­na­tion­al gov­er­nance. The Hun­gar­i­an prime min­is­ter launched Patri­ots for Europe in June 2024, rapid­ly assem­bling a Euro­pean Par­lia­ment bloc with par­ties from 14 mem­ber states—including Marine Le Pen’s Nation­al Ral­ly, Mat­teo Salvini’s League, and Geert Wilders’ Par­ty for Freedom—representing over 15 mil­lion voters.

The Con­ser­v­a­tive Polit­i­cal Action Con­fer­ence has emerged as the pri­ma­ry vehi­cle for this alliance, with Hun­gar­i­an offi­cials pre­sent­ing their illib­er­al democ­ra­cy mod­el as a blue­print at CPAC 2025, along­side appear­ances by JD Vance, Nigel Farage, and Jor­dan Bardel­la. The Trump admin­is­tra­tion’s Decem­ber 2025 Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Strat­e­gy explic­it­ly endorsed “patri­ot­ic Euro­pean par­ties” and called for “cul­ti­vat­ing resis­tance to Europe’s cur­rent tra­jec­to­ry,” which the Coun­cil on For­eign Rela­tions char­ac­ter­ized as sig­nal­ing sup­port for nation­al­ist far-right par­ties. This unprece­dent­ed lan­guage prompt­ed the Brook­ings Insti­tu­tion to iden­ti­fy an “alliance of revi­sion­ists” whose goal is to dis­man­tle Euro­pean Union institutions.

Beyond con­fer­ences, the alliance oper­ates through shared author­i­tar­i­an tac­tics that Orbán pio­neered and Amer­i­can con­ser­v­a­tives now repli­cate, includ­ing sys­tem­at­ic tar­get­ing of civ­il soci­ety orga­ni­za­tions and weaponiza­tion of reg­u­la­to­ry frame­works against media crit­ics. The Trump DHS Sec­re­tary endorsed the Law and Jus­tice Par­ty’s pres­i­den­tial can­di­date at CPAC Poland—the first time the con­fer­ence was held in that country—explicitly urg­ing Poles to elect a leader who would work with Pres­i­dent Trump. The Euro­pean Coun­cil on For­eign Rela­tions notes that the Her­itage Foun­da­tion has active­ly devel­oped con­nec­tions with the Euro­pean far-right, host­ing pre­sen­ta­tions on reports call­ing for strip­ping EU insti­tu­tions of pow­er. Hun­gary’s Math­ias Corv­i­nus Col­legium received over €6 mil­lion to estab­lish Brus­sels oper­a­tions aimed at influ­enc­ing Euro­pean pol­i­cy­mak­ers while host­ing Amer­i­can con­ser­v­a­tive figures.

Exter­nal References:

• The Euro­pean Rad­i­cal Right in the Age of Trump 2.0 (Carnegie Endowment)
• MAGA goes glob­al: Trump’s plan for Europe (Euro­pean Coun­cil on For­eign Relations)
• Break­ing down Trump’s 2025 Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Strat­e­gy (Brook­ings Institution)

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