BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Tuesday that the Trump administration’s new national security strategy underscores the need for Europe to become “much more independent” from the United States in terms of security policy. Merz also pushed back against the notion that European democracy needs saving.

Germany and France on Tuesday criticised the United States’ newly released National Security Strategy, with both governments warning that the document marks a troubling shift in Washington’s posture t

The strategy rests on pillars that demand Canadian attention: a reinvigorated Monroe Doctrine for the Western Hemisphere, a technology-centred national security doctrine built around U.S. dominance of artificial intelligence, compute power and the cloud infrastructure that enables them, and an extraterritorial approach to technology standards that binds partners tightly to the U.S. innovation ...

The newly published US ‘National Security Strategy’ is being seen by some as further evidence that in the era of Trump western nations are no longer united in the way they view the world. From its scathing narrative of European decline,

The Trump administration says Europe is facing "civilizational erasure" and calls for a halt to NATO expansion.

A U.S. envoy reaffirmed Monday that "complete denuclearization" of North Korea remains the policy shared with South Korea, after a new U.S. security strategy document showed the phrase was absent.