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The mother of all wake-up calls from Washington to Europe?

The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy is causing a stir in Europe with its searing critique of America’s closest allies, including a warning that the continent is facing “civilizational decline”. Ian Lesser, the vice president and Brussels chief of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, joins Thanos Davelis as we take a closer look at what some are already calling the “mother of all wake-up calls” from Washington toward Europe.

You can read the articles we discuss on our podcast here:

Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’

Trump warns Europe faces ‘civilizational erasure’ in explosive new document

U.S. Flips History by Casting Europe—Not Russia—as Villain in New Security Policy

Farmers step up road blockades across Greece

PM urges farmers to scale back protests, promises payments by year-end

Turkey, US will find way of removing CAATSA sanctions ‘very soon’, Turkish FM says

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