US strategy: 'Strengthen ties with Italy, Austria, Hungary and Poland to weaken the European Union'

"To cooperate more" with Austria, Hungary, Italy and Poland "with the aim of distancing them from the European Union": this is one of the passages of a more extensive version, circulated before the official White House version, of the US National Security Strategy (Nss) document reviewed by Defense One, a US site specialising in the US defence/security sector.

While the Nss made public last Friday by the White House calls for an end to an 'ever-expanding NATO', the broader version circulating earlier goes into more detail on how the Trump administration would like to 'make Europe great again', while calling on European NATO members to make themselves autonomous from US military support.

Assuming that Europe is facing an "extinction of civilisation" due to its immigration policies and "censorship of free speech", the Nss, writes Defense One, proposes to focus US relations with European countries with governments and movements similar to Trump's America, thus presumably right-wing.

Austria, Hungary, Italy, and Poland are listed by Defense One's reconstruction as countries with which the US should "cooperate more, with the aim of distancing them from the European Union". "And we should support parties, movements, and intellectual and cultural figures that seek sovereignty and the preservation/restoration of traditional European ways of life while remaining pro-American," the document stated, according to the masthead.

After the publication of this news, the White House denied the existence of any version of the National Security Strategy other than the one published online.