America’s civilisational suicide View(s):By Carl Bildt, PROJECT SYNDICATE, EXCLUSIVE TO THE SUNDAY TIMES IN SRI LANKASTOCKHOLM – Earlier this month, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov offered a succinct description of the Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy (NSS), calling it “largely consistent with our vision.”He’s right. But the second Trump administration is bowing to Russia, criticising the Europeans, and describing the threat from China only in economic terms. The share of our people in prison is one-fifth that of the US, and our murder rates are a small fraction of America’s. Few places on Earth provide a better quality of life for a larger share of the population than Europe does. Barring that, it is not us who will be committing civilisational suicide.

Source: Sunday Times December 20, 2025 23:06 UTC