The new U.S. National Security Strategy is based on a well-understood national self-interest, said Sławomir Cenckiewicz, head of the National Security Bureau (BBN), on Wednesday. He agreed with the assessment made by American experts regarding the European Union, specifically that the bloc is overregulated.
On Friday, the White House unveiled its new National Security Strategy, which alters the United States’ existing global security policy. According to analysts at the National Security Bureau, “the document has far-reaching consequences for Europe and Poland: it shifts the burden of security responsibility to regional states, enhances the strategic importance of our part of Europe, and opens new opportunities for Poland while simultaneously requiring greater defence self-reliance.”
Cenckiewicz was asked about the Strategy in an interview with RMF FM. “The new U.S. National Security Strategy is, in a sense, an adaptation of the political concepts of Trumpism to international and U.S. security issues, which are based on a well-understood national egoism,” he said.
Europe lacks defence capabilities
He agreed with the U.S. strategy’s critical view of the European Union. “The authors of the American national strategy point to the issue of overregulation. The entire idea behind the new U.S. Security Strategy is that Europe—which wants to regulate everything—should finally regulate the matter of its own autonomous defence capabilities,” he noted.
In his view, at present “Europe has practically no capabilities” to defend itself against a potential Russian attack. “And that is where my position differs from those who, somewhat emotionally, already today in 2025 are saying: America is passé, America has turned away, America is finished,” he said.