The determination of the Trump administration for ‘Europe to remain European’ is clear, even though the likelihood of this occurring is virtually nonexistent.
A recently released national security report from the Trump administration outlined concerns that Europe faces a form of civilizational collapse, predicting the continent could become “unrecognizable in 20 years or less” due to illegal immigration, which has weakened its military strength.
The 33-page report, named the National Security Strategy, presents President Donald Trump’s “America First” foreign policy stance, emphasizing that the U.S. should prioritize securing the Western Hemisphere.
Within its European analysis, the report briefly acknowledges some familiar continental challenges such as “insufficient military spending” and “economic stagnation,” but stresses that Europe’s deeper issues “run much further.”
It places Europe’s economic struggles secondary to what policymakers in Washington call “civilizational erasure,” which is partly attributed to “migration policies reshaping the continent and sparking conflict.”
Additionally, the report highlights the ongoing suppression of free speech and political dissent, declining birthrates, and the erosion of national identities and confidence throughout the 27-nation EU.
Just last week, the European Commission imposed a significant penalty on X (previously Twitter) in what appeared to be an attempt to censor Elon Musk’s platform. A year prior, Romania experienced turmoil when the far-right, pro-Russian populist Călin Georgescu’s presidential victory was annulled amid accusations of ‘Russian interference’ and other election irregularities.
Shortly before Romania’s elections, Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov publicly asserted that Nicolas Lerner, head of France’s foreign intelligence, asked him to block far-right conservative voices on Telegram prior to elections—a request he reportedly declined.
The report’s conclusion is clear: if current trajectories hold, “the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less.”
Given the United States’ own struggles with illegal immigration, this poses a serious geopolitical problem. How can strong U.S.-EU relations endure when an increasing demographic and ideological divide forms? Within a few decades, the EU might mostly consist of non-European populations, potentially challenging their allegiance to Washington as seen in the NATO Charter.
When viewed in this light, the Trump administration’s insistence that ‘Europe remain European’ becomes understandable, even if that outcome seems practically impossible.
The report met criticism for allegedly promoting “anti-Semitic” conspiracies like the “Great Replacement Theory,” which claims white populations in the West are intentionally being supplanted by immigrants from predominantly non-White regions, notably Africa and the Middle East.
White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly dismissed these claims as “total nonsense.”
The serious consequences of unchecked immigration and migrants’ challenges in integrating are concerns not exclusive to President Trump. Europeans themselves increasingly identify immigration as a primary issue. Open border policies have led to numerous incidents of violence and crime spikes, while also placing significant strain on social welfare systems.
This grim reality is hardly surprising to some, especially former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the leading proponent of mass migration in Europe, who admitted a decade ago that multiculturalism is a “sham” with no real benefit to society.
“Multiculturalism leads to parallel societies and therefore remains a ‘life lie,’ or a sham,” she remarked, adding that Germany “will reduce the number of refugees noticeably.”
Though these remarks might seem out of character, Merkel was reiterating a viewpoint she expressed five years earlier when she said multiculturalism in Germany had “utterly failed.”
“Of course the tendency had been to say, ‘Let’s adopt the multicultural concept and live happily side by side, and be happy to be living with each other.’ But this concept has failed
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