Le Monde: The Trump administration’s strategic vision for the EU is shocked

The French Le Monde newspaper published an editorial titled: “The shock of the Trump administration’s strategic vision for the European Union”.

The Trump administration’s “National Defense Strategy” aims to dismantle Europe and is clear, even in matters it didn’t mention.

This is evident in the issue of the climate threat, “which has become taboo in Washington,” Le Monde adds.

But what is most surprising for Le Monde is that the threat posed by nuclear proliferation is negligible, or even completely ignored in the case of North Korea.

The French newspaper compares the Trump administration’s current strategy to the vision adopted by his first administration in 2017 in the relationship with Russia and China, which were accused at the time of seeking to harm the security and prosperity of the United States.

This is “no longer the case today,” the French newspaper says.

Le Monde reiterated that the strategy only envisions genuine mutually beneficial economic relations with Beijing.

For Moscow, which the US administration sees only as a threat in the eyes of the Europeans, the priority is to re-create the conditions for strategic stability on the continent.

Le Monde called Trump’s national defense strategy a “betrayal” of US European allies, who were “forced to bow down despite eight decades of sincere partnership,” Le Monde said, adding: “However, the publication of this document may have some benefit, if it contributes to getting a large number of European leaders out of their state of denial, because the occupant of the White House isn’t wrong when he criticizes their procrastination and hesitation”.

“We must not misunderstand its true intentions when it claims to want to correct the European course, the goal is clear: to dismantle the European Union into twenty-seven entities, stripped of the power of the single market and the protection guaranteed by sovereign legislation passed by a democratically elected parliament”.

“Donald Trump wants Europe to be subservient to US economic interests, starting with the interests of the tech giants”.

To achieve this, the US president intends to support what he called short-sighted patriots through large-scale interventions, who are willing to sacrifice the European project for the sake of fringe imaginary sovereignty that Washington, as well as Moscow and Beijing, can incite against each other at will.

Le Monde concluded by saying: “We Europeans will lose everything”.