Europe decries "political war" over new U.S. national security strategy

* Washington now believes that a weaker, more divided Europe, with a more assertive U.S. influence on its internal politics, serves American interests. * "I think they are weak," Trump said in an interview with POLITICO at the White House on Monday, referring to European leaders. "I think they don't know what to do ... Europe doesn't know what to do." * Behind the ideological clash lie older anxieties about hard security: Europe's defense spending, NATO's strategic direction and the future of th