The release of the 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy marks a seismic shift in the global geopolitical landscape. America is returning to a clear realism in geopolitics: prioritising borders, domestic production, energy independence, and national security.
The era in which Europe comfortably lived under the American protective umbrella, enjoying stability and prosperity without taking responsibility, has definitively ended. The “shield” that Europe once considered a given is gone.
Today, Europe faces a profound crisis of self-awareness and readiness. Over the past two decades, bureaucracy, ideological obsessions with multiculturalism and green utopias, deindustrialisation, and dependence on imported energy have created a fragile structure incapable of addressing real threats. Illegal immigration, Islamist infiltration, Russian power in the East, the rising influence of China and India, and Turkey’s revisionist ambitions in the south and east leave Europe exposed and unable to act as a leading force.
The message is unmistakable: Europe must grow up. It must stand on its own, taking full responsibility for its security, production, and prosperity. No more bureaucratic fairy tales, no illusions of superiority, no hypocritical multiculturalism. Radical reforms are needed to make Europe a geopolitically relevant power, economically robust, and energy independent. Europe can no longer exist in a sheltered bubble.
For Greece, the message is even more direct. The country must act decisively: harness the Eastern Mediterranean EEZ, boost domestic production and industry, revitalise rural areas, develop a truly competitive workforce, and attract strategic investments. The model of a client state living on subsidies and imported flows is over. Greece must become the producer of its own future.
The vacuum left by the United States is not merely a gap in strategic protection—it is an unprecedented opportunity.
Europe must decide whether it will remain a bureaucratic, ideologically rigid, and weakened zone, or whether it will reclaim its role as a true force of peace, security, and culture. Failure to do so will leave it unable to defend its interests and at the mercy of changes it helped create.
The time for action is now. Every delay, every postponement, and every compromise with current decline will come at a high cost. Europe must understand that the era of naivety and dependence has ended. The moment for strategic maturity, decisiveness, and radical transformation has arrived.
The European project, as it has operated in recent decades, is no longer Europe. It is the opposite of what the founders envisioned: it has abandoned security for illusion, prosperity for bureaucracy and energy dependency, and cultural cohesion for ideological experimentation. The new U.S. doctrine is not a threat; it is a challenge—and an opportunity—for Europe to redefine itself, regain its autonomy, and reclaim the role it once held in the world.
Europe and Greece must rise to this challenge or risk being overtaken by history. The question is no longer what America wants—the question is what Europe wants to be: a fragile shadow of its ideals or the Europe it was always capable of becoming.
