# 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]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “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 ```