Leaked US strategy shows government plans to improve relations with Hungary, Italy, Russia and Poland, while backing away from the EU

Last Friday’s release of President Trump’s new National Security Strategy (NSS) was seen as a bold new path for the United States, with calls for returning to strategic stability in relations with Russia, enabling Europe to assume responsibility for its own defense, and preventing further NATO enlargement.

However, a longer and unclassified version reportedly has further points being highlighted in the media, including specific mentions of Austria, Hungary, Italy, and Poland.

Beyond appealing to European NATO members to become less dependent on U.S. military support, it proposes new mechanisms for global leadership and a different way to influence Europe’s future using cultural values, writes Polish news portal Wiadomosci.

The official strategy does talk of “strong, traditional families” and “renewing America’s spiritual and cultural health,” but clearly the Trump administration seeks to take this a step further. 

Based on the premise that Europe faces a “civilizational erasure” due to migration policies and “censorship of free speech,” the NSS proposes focusing U.S. relations with Europe on a few countries with similar current governments and movements. 

This longer version allegedly identifies Austria, Hungary, Italy, and Poland as countries with which the U.S. should “work more closely… to steer them away from [the European Union].”

“And we should support parties, movements, and intellectual and cultural figures that strive for sovereignty and the preservation/restoration of traditional European ways of life… while remaining pro-American,” the document reads, as cited by Wiadomosci.

Last summer, President Trump made headlines when he lamented Russia’s expulsion from the G8—now the G7—as a “very big mistake.” He even hinted at adding China, creating a “G9.” His national security strategy goes a step further, calling for the creation of a new body of powers, unbound by the G7’s requirement that countries be both prosperous and “democratically governed.”

The strategy proposes a “Core 5,” or C5, composed of the United States, China, Russia, India, and Japan—several countries with populations exceeding 100 million. This format would meet regularly, like the G7, for summits devoted to specific topics. The first item on the proposed C5 agenda: Middle East security—specifically, the normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

This full version of the NSS notes the “failure” of American hegemony—a concept not mentioned in the official public version. “Hegemony is the wrong goal and was not achievable,” the document states.

“After the end of the Cold War, American foreign policy elites convinced themselves that continued American dominance of the entire world was in our country’s best interests,” the NSS states.

“However, the affairs of other countries are our concern only when their actions directly threaten our interests,” it added.

The administration appears to be using this logic to withdraw the U.S. from its role as Europe’s defender, shifting its focus to drug cartel groups based in Venezuela. “The Trump administration inherited a world where wars have shattered peace and stability in many countries across multiple continents. We have a natural interest in mitigating this crisis,” the NSS writes.

The document emphasizes that it is not up to the United States to do all this alone, but at the same time, China and Russia should not replace American leadership. The strategy suggests cooperation with “regional champions” to maintain stability.

“We will reward and encourage governments, political parties, and movements that broadly align with our principles and strategy. But we cannot ignore governments with different views, with whom we nevertheless share interests and who want to cooperate with us,” the document reads.

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