The US National Security Strategy paints a picture of the sort of nation the Trump administration wants to see in Europe: culturally cohesive, militarily strong, with low levels of crime and immigration – and “majority European,” meaning white. If that country can get rich by making a product the rest of the world wants to buy, all the better.
What would such a country look like? Denmark might be a start. It has some of Europe’s toughest immigration laws and one of its lowest crime rates. Conscription is mandatory, and it is overwhelmingly white. It even makes the drugs that keep Americans thin. If its welfare state is too cushy, or its climate policies too green – well, nobody’s perfect.
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