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The Guardian - US
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Andrew Roth in Washington

You and me against the world: who was behind Trump’s anti-Europe foreign policy?

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Michael Anton, former deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, in National Harbor, Maryland, on 2 March 2023. Photograph: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images

How do you create a foreign policy manifesto for a US president who leads from the gut?

The initial draft fell to Michael Anton, a Maga firebrand whom officials have called the lead author behind the US’s radical new national security strategy (NSS). The document shocked US allies, warning that immigration to Europe would cause “civilizational erasure”, reviving the Monroe doctrine in the western hemisphere, and downgrading the US’s responsibility for great power competition with China and Russia.

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