German Chancellor Friedrich Merz—whose right-globalist, increasingly authoritarian political party is presently in electoral free fall—lashed out at the Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy this week, branding parts of it “unacceptable” to Europe’s ruling class The former BlackRock executive’s outrage, expressed in an interview with the left-globalist press outlet Der Spiegel, revealed more about Europe’s increasing insecurity than about the document itself.