In Ukraine, as elsewhere in Europe, Donald Trump’s new national security strategy is being met with a mixture of incredulity and incomprehension. ‘What does it actually mean?’ a general who advises Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked me on Tuesday as we met in the presidential administration building in downtown Kyiv. It’s not an easy question to answer.

Is it a blueprint for surrendering to the Kremlin? Or a negligible document that, for all the hoopla surrounding it, President Trump has most likely never read?

The document was apparently drafted by Michael Anton, who was until recently head of the US State Department’s policy planning staff. He seems to have tailored it to torment America’s European allies, including Great Britain. The strategy, if it deserves that word, focuses on not merely echoing but amplifying vice president J.D. Vance’s mephitic blast at the Munich Security Conference in February, where he denounced the Europeans as a feckless lot who were allowing immigrants to overrun their societies and denying free........

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