Vows ‘resistance’ in Europe, prioritises eliminating mass migration

President Donald Trump laid out a radical realignment of US foreign policy yesterday, shifting the longtime superpower's focus from global to regional, brutally criticizing Europe as facing "civilizational erasure" and putting a top priority on eliminating mass migration.

The national security strategy, meant to flesh out Trump's norms-shattering worldview, elevates Latin America to the top of the US agenda in a sharp reorientation from longstanding US calls to focus on Asia to face a rising China.

"In everything we do, we are putting America First," Trump said in a preamble to the long-awaited paper.

Breaking with decades of attempts to be the sole superpower, the strategy said that the "United States rejects the ill-fated concept of global domination for itself."

It said that the United States would also prevent other powers, namely China, from dominating but added: "This does not mean wasting blood and treasure to curtail the influence of all the world's great and middle powers."

The strategy called for a "readjustment of our global military presence to address urgent threats in our Hemisphere," starting with migration.

"The era of mass migration must end," the strategy said. The strategy made clear that the US under Trump would aggressively pursue similar objectives in Europe, in line with far-right parties' agendas.

It also said the administration would be "cultivating resistance to Europe's current trajectory within European nations." Germany quickly hit back. The strategy pointed to Europe's slide in share of the global economy -- which is the result largely of the rise of China and other emerging powers -- and said: "This economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure."