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(Bloomberg) — The Trump administration’s recently released national security strategy was not intended as empty criticism of Europe but was designed to help steer the continent back on track, a top State Department official said.
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“The president’s national security strategy was not an insult, it was a diagnosis,” Jacob Helberg, the under secretary of state for economic affairs said Tuesday in an interview on Bloomberg Television.
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The Trump national security team’s unusually blunt strategy document warned that a declining Europe lacked “self-confidence” and risked “civilizational erasure” as a result of immigration and weak political leadership. It charged that those leaders were more focused on censorship and “regulatory suffocation” than military spending or “promoting European greatness.”
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The document was parsed intensely by think tanks and foreign diplomats desperate to decipher strategic intent amid the policy chaos and confusion of Donald Trump’s Washington. According to Helberg, a former adviser to the CEO of defense tech company Palantir Technologies, the strategy document was designed to help Europe.
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“He laid out in clear and simple terms that there is a turning point that Europe is facing,” Helberg said of the strategy document signed by Trump. “It can choose managed decline, bureaucratic paralysis, or it can choose rejuvenation, secure borders, energy abundance, and fair and reciprocal trade.”
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Helberg added that the EU is “way too heavy handed from a bureaucratic and regulatory standpoint” when it comes to technology.
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In a likely allusion to the EU hitting Elon Musk’s X social network with a €120 million ($141 million) fine this month for violating the bloc’s content-moderation law, Helberg said that “when they take steps to go after our companies, they actually end up hurting themselves” by “deteriorating” their investment climate.
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