# Europe Faces the Prospect of Civilizational Erasure by The White House
> “But this economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure.”
> **— The White House**, *National Security Strategy of the United States of America, November 2025*
## Sources and Context
- **Primary document:** The White House, [*National Security Strategy of the United States of America*](https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf), “Promoting European Greatness,” p. 28, dated November 2025 and released December 5, 2025.
- **Context:** The preceding paragraph discusses Europe's declining share of global GDP. The following text attributes the asserted civilizational danger to migration, censorship, falling birthrates, and loss of national identity and self-confidence. The Reminder preserves the document's proposition without endorsing it.
- **Article use:** [[articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] treats the sentence as evidence that an American national-security document explicitly claimed standing to judge the preservation or loss of European civilization.
## Related Articles and Collections
- **Collection:** [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]]
- **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]]
- **Article:** [[articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]]
## Related Topics
- [[wiki/2025 National Security Strategy|2025 National Security Strategy]]
- [[wiki/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]]
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“But this economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure.”
— The White House, National Security Strategy of the United States of America, November 2025
https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-white-house-europe-prospect-civilizational-erasure
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