“Dear American friends, Europe is your closest ally, not your problem,” wrote Donald Tusk in English on the social network. He reminded Donald Trump’s White House that Europeans and Americans have common enemies. “At least that’s how it’s been for the last 80 years,” he pointed out on Saturday afternoon.
This is Tusk’s latest reaction to the US president and his government – the new US national security strategy. Indeed, Washington accuses the European Union (EU) and migration of the alleged immediate threat to the entire cultural and civilizational foundation of Europe.
The “erasure” of civilization
According to the document, the Old Continent faces economic problems that are “overshadowed by the very real and far more stark prospect of the obliteration of civilization” in the next twenty years.
“Among the bigger problems facing Europe are the activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine political freedom and sovereignty, migration policies that are changing the continent and causing conflicts, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, a sharp decline in the birth rate and a loss of national identity and self-confidence,” according to the US government document signed by President Trump.
The document represents one of the biggest reassessments of the US approach to Europe since the end of the Cold War. In addition to the Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk, several European leaders have already commented on the topic.
Reactions of European leaders
The head of European diplomacy that the USA is still the biggest diplomatic ally of the EU. “I don’t think we’ve always seen all the issues the same way, but the general principle remains. We are the greatest allies and we should stand together,” she responded to criticism from across the Atlantic.
Portraying Europe in a negative light, as the White House did, was also rejected by the head of German diplomacy, Johann Wadephul.
According to Polish Prime Minister Tusk, the new American security strategy has far-reaching consequences for Europe and Poland. “It shifts responsibility for security to the countries of the region, increases the strategic importance of our part of Europe, opens up new opportunities for Poland, but at the same time requires greater defense independence,” says the head of the government of our northern neighbors.
There are conspiracies
In the aforementioned document, the US presents Europe as a key but increasingly weak partner, which faces deep demographic, social and security crises. The American document also contains a racist conspiracy theory, according to which the elites allegedly plan to weaken the white vote in the EU by opening up the countries to migration from the African continent – especially from Muslim countries.
