Over the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades at the latest, certain NATO members will become majority non-European. As such, it is an open question whether they will view their place in the world, or their alliance with the United States, in the same way as those who signed the NATO charter.
Our broad policy for Europe should prioritize:
⏺ Reestablishing conditions of stability within Europe and strategic stability with Russia;
⏺ Enabling Europe to stand on its own feet and operate as a group of aligned sovereign nations, including by taking primary responsibility for its own defense, without being dominated by any adversarial power;
⏺ Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations;
⏺ Opening European markets to U.S. goods and services and ensuring fair treatment of U.S. workers and businesses;
⏺ Building up the healthy nations of Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe through commercial ties, weapons sales, political collaboration, and cultural and educational exchanges;
⏺ Ending the perception, and preventing the reality, of NATO as a perpetually expanding alliance; and
⏺ Encouraging Europe to take action to combat mercantilist overcapacity, technological theft, cyber espionage, and other hostile economic practices.