Trump Strategy Document Supports European Far-Right Parties

The Trump admin­is­tra­tion has released the Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Strat­e­gy, explic­it­ly sup­port­ing far-right nation­al­ist par­ties in Europe. On 5 Decem­ber 2025, The Guardian report­ed that a doc­u­ment signed by Trump states Europe faces civil­i­sa­tion­al era­sure with­in two decades, call­ing for the US to cul­ti­vate resis­tance with­in Euro­pean nations. The arti­cle begins:

Don­ald Trump’s admin­is­tra­tion has said Europe faces “civil­i­sa­tion­al era­sure” with­in the next two decades as a result of migra­tion and EU inte­gra­tion, argu­ing in a pol­i­cy doc­u­ment that the US must “cul­ti­vate resis­tance” with­in the con­ti­nent to “Europe’s cur­rent tra­jec­to­ry”. Billed as “a roadmap to ensure Amer­i­ca remains the great­est and most suc­cess­ful nation in human his­to­ry and the home of free­dom on earth”, the US Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Strat­e­gy makes explic­it Wash­ing­ton’s sup­port for Europe’s nation­al­ist far-right parties.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/05/civilisational-erasure-us-strategy-document-appears-to-echo-far-right-conspiracy-theories-about-europe

Key Points

• Doc­u­ment states Europe’s real prob­lems include activ­i­ties of the EU that under­mine polit­i­cal lib­er­ty and sov­er­eign­ty, migra­tion poli­cies trans­form­ing the con­ti­nent, cen­sor­ship of free speech and sup­pres­sion of polit­i­cal oppo­si­tion, and loss of nation­al iden­ti­ties, with poli­cies requir­ing cul­ti­vat­ing resis­tance to Europe’s cur­rent tra­jec­to­ry with­in Euro­pean nations.
• Strat­e­gy appears to espouse the great replace­ment con­spir­a­cy the­o­ry, say­ing sev­er­al coun­tries risk becom­ing major­i­ty non-Euro­pean, and Europe faces a real and stark prospect of civil­i­sa­tion­al era­sure, adding that if present trends con­tin­ue, the con­ti­nent will be unrecog­nis­able in 20 years or less.
• The doc­u­ment says the grow­ing influ­ence of patri­ot­ic Euro­pean par­ties gives cause for great opti­mism, with the Trump admin­is­tra­tion repeat­ed­ly seek­ing to fos­ter clos­er ties with nation­al­ist par­ties, includ­ing Ger­many’s AfD, whose senior par­ty fig­ure vis­it­ed the White House in Sep­tem­ber for meet­ings with senior officials.
• Ger­many’s for­eign min­is­ter, Johann Wade­phul, respond­ed that the US remains a vital ally on secu­ri­ty, but ques­tions of free­dom of expres­sion or organ­i­sa­tion of free soci­eties do not fall into that cat­e­go­ry, stat­ing we do not need out­side advice on these matters.

Trump Administration and the Global National Conservative Alliance: Forging Europe’s Far-Right Network

The Trump admin­is­tra­tion has forged a transat­lantic coali­tion with Euro­pean far-right move­ments span­ning mul­ti­ple coun­tries, unit­ed by oppo­si­tion to migra­tion, cli­mate pol­i­cy, and supra­na­tion­al gov­er­nance. This net­work crys­tal­lized through the Patri­ots for Europe par­lia­men­tary bloc launched in June 2024, which rapid­ly became the Euro­pean Par­lia­men­t’s third-largest group­ing with par­ties from 14 mem­ber states rep­re­sent­ing over 15 mil­lion voters—including Marine Le Pen’s Nation­al Ral­ly in France, Mat­teo Salvini’s League in Italy, Geert Wilders’ Par­ty for Free­dom in the Nether­lands, and Aus­tri­a’s Free­dom Party.

Ital­ian Prime Min­is­ter Gior­gia Mel­oni attend­ed Trump’s Jan­u­ary 2025 inau­gu­ra­tion along­side fig­ures from Ger­many’s AfD, seek­ing to posi­tion her­self as Europe’s key transat­lantic inter­locu­tor. The Carnegie Endow­ment notes that rad­i­cal-right par­ties now par­tic­i­pate in gov­ern­ments across five EU mem­ber states—Croatia, Fin­land, Hun­gary, Italy, and Slovakia—while advanc­ing in Ger­many, France, and the Nether­lands. At CPAC con­fer­ences held in Budapest and Poland, Trump, Tuck­er Carl­son, and Euro­pean lead­ers includ­ing Spain’s San­ti­a­go Abas­cal and the Czech Repub­lic’s Andrej Babiš have exchanged tac­tics for insti­tu­tion­al trans­for­ma­tion and media control.

The insti­tu­tion­al archi­tec­ture con­nect­ing these move­ments includes the Her­itage Foun­da­tion’s col­lab­o­ra­tion with Hun­gar­i­an think tanks on pol­i­cy frame­works attack­ing EU reg­u­la­tions, while the Math­ias Corv­i­nus Col­legium hosts Amer­i­can con­ser­v­a­tives and oper­ates influ­ence cam­paigns in Brus­sels. The ECFR observes that this con­ver­gence means lib­er­al Euro­peans now face pres­sure on two fronts: inter­nal­ly from embold­ened far-right par­ties, and exter­nal­ly from U.S. lever­age through con­nec­tions to Euro­pean polit­i­cal allies.

Sig­nif­i­cant ten­sions per­sist with­in this alliance over trade tar­iffs that threat­en Euro­pean indus­tries and diver­gent posi­tions on Rus­sia and Chi­na. MAG­A­’s effort to lead the Glob­al Nation­al Con­ser­v­a­tive Alliance expos­es rifts between Amer­i­can pro­tec­tion­ism and Euro­pean eco­nom­ic inter­ests, while par­ties like Ger­many’s AfD main­tain clos­er ties to Moscow than Wash­ing­ton on ener­gy policy.

Exter­nal References:

• The Euro­pean Rad­i­cal Right in the Age of Trump 2.0 — Carnegie Endowment
• When Cul­ture War and Trade War Clash: Trump’s Trou­bled Alliance with Europe’s Far Right — ECFR
• The Para­dox of Europe’s Trumpian Right — For­eign Affairs

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