Natalie Kitro-Eff
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Well, you're starting to point at this, David, but just explain why this concept that migration is changing the demographic makeup of Europe and the culture, perhaps, of Europe.
Why is it important for the Trump administration?
Like, what does it have to do with American foreign policy?
Can I just ask, I understand that there were many Europeans who were shocked by this when Vance brought it up and perhaps have been shocked by it in this document.
But it's true, right, that there has been this massive wave of migration across Europe and there is a lot of discontent with it.
There are a lot of people who aren't in favor of it and don't see it as something they want in their countries.
And just explain why that's problematic in the eyes of the Trump administration.
And so what, if anything, is the Trump administration saying they're going to do about that problem?
So just to sum up what you've told us about the Europe policy that's articulated here, this is much of what we've seen already in the Trump administration saying, basically, Europe, you're on your own in terms of paying for your own defense.
We're not going to be as involved as we have been.
And then you're also seeing this expressed concern over mass migration in Europe and civilizational erasure.
So what do you make of this altogether?
How should we interpret it?
David, before the break, you said that this document articulates that our backyard is now the focus of America's foreign policy.
So what exactly does the Trump administration want to do in our backyard?
And how does it define our backyard?
Yeah, let's get the spark notes.
So what it does is essentially give a retroactive justification or rationale for what we've seen with the U.S.
military sinking these boats in the Caribbean and killing alleged drug runners.