America and Europe on the Divorce Highway
TEHRAN (Iran News) Europe’s new position in U.S. calculations is portrayed as follows: unlike past documents that emphasized alliance and cooperation, the 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy’s view of Europe is entirely critical and demeaning. The document explicitly warns that Europe faces a “real and severe prospect of civilizational erasure” over the next two decades and that, if current trends continue, it will become politically completely unreliable within 20 years.
The European Union’s migration policies, “censorship of freedom of speech,” suppression of political opponents, low birth rates, and loss of national identity are cited as among the reasons for this decline.
The document explicitly states that “the era of Europe being a burden is over,” and it is unclear whether some European countries will, in the future, have the necessary economic and military capacity to remain reliable allies of the United States. In contrast to this view of Europe, the prevailing spirit of the new document is a redefinition of the Monroe Doctrine with a Trumpian addendum, aimed at America’s unchallenged dominance over its own continent. This is because absolute priority is given to border security and the halting of mass migration as the foremost national security priority, along with preventing the influence of rival powers such as China, Russia, and Iran in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Ensuring reliable access for the United States to strategic routes, resources, and critical supply chains in the region is also emphasized.
With the issuance of the new U.S. security document, Europe first responded with an official protest, followed by practical measures to reduce its dependence.
This two-pronged approach indicates a serious strategic reassessment of Europe’s relations with Washington.
No better title can be given to this than traveling on the divorce highway of the two Western continents.
- author : Hamid Reza Naghashian
- source : IRAN NEWS
