#us-national-security-strategy

#us-national-security-strategy

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has urged the prime minister to stand up to Donald Trump, describing the US president's new national security strategy as "deeply alarming". The document, which was published last week, warns Europe faces "civilisational erasure" and says US policy should prioritize "cultivating resistance to Europe's current trajectory". Sir Ed called on the PM to "make it clear to President Trump that any attempts to interfere with our democracy are totally unacceptable".

The adjustments that we see are largely consistent with our vision, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalist Pavel Zarubin, of the state-run TASS news agency, adding: We consider this a positive step. He praised the current administration as fundamentally different from the previous ones and continued: President Trump is currently strong in terms of domestic political positions. And this gives him the opportunity to adjust the concept to suit his vision.

"There's a lot of criticism [in the paper], but I think some of it is also true; if you look at Europe, it has been underestimating its own power towards Russia," Kallas said on a panel at the Doha Forum in Qatar. "We should be more self-confident," she said, adding that the "US is still our biggest ally." "I think we haven't always seen eye to eye on different topics, but I think the overall principle is still there."