The section on Europe in the US National Security Strategy doc goes hard. All true, and exasperating to read as a European (albeit outside Europe for a decade).
It clearly comes from a place of fondness. The question however, is how to win the propaganda war within Europe, to sway the European people to do something about their plight (or whether the US should care enough in the first place to even take it there).
The problem is that there are existential fears at play. When the US says “your politicians are playing you, we’re not paying for the war in Ukraine any longer”, whether it’s on this topic or any other, within Europe it is widely seen as a back stabbing action. So any action comes back like a boomerang to hit you in the face.
So question is, how can the American people and the US government establish stronger more direct connections with the Europeans, bypassing its perfidious elites? Should they even care?
