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Until a couple of weeks ago, I thought Europe, or at least its Nato and EU members, belonged to the Western Hemisphere, with democracy, shared values, strong transatlantic ties.

First, in the United States’ National Security Strategy of November 2025 it was made crystal clear that we, the Europeans, do not belong to “them”. What authors of the NSS (probably first and foremost White House deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security advisor Stephen Miller) mean with the Western Hemisphere is the American double continent including Greenland (although Greenland was strikingly missing on the above historical map of the American double continent which was used in Pete Hegseth’s new National Defense Strategy, see below).

So, I learned that we, the Europeans, belong to a different sphere of influence, Eurasia, which is currently dominated by Putin’s Russia.

I doubt whether many ordinary people in Germany, even its politicians, have fully understood that transatlantic trust is, from now on, an illusion. Europe is not an ally, it’s at most a vassal. At least an unwelcome competitor economically. Tedious when it comes to this Russian province, Ukraine. As Victoria Nuland, then U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs, put it already in 2014, Fuck the EU!

The Western Hemisphere is mentioned 24 times in the NSS. Greenland is not mentioned.