HERE it is . . . in black and white.
What Trump’s White House have said privately for months they’ve finally put in writing.
Britain and Europe face “civilizational erasure”.
Normally this sort of talk is reserved for sympathetic off-the-record chats and pondering questions of: “What are you guys doing over there?”
But out of diplomatic politeness, such comments that roll off the tongues of presidents, powerbrokers, officials, cabinet ministers and senators are not normally blasted out publicly.
Donald Trump, however, doesn’t do normal diplomacy.
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On borders, the US President’s updated assessment of the global discord published on Friday does not mince words: “Long term, it is more than plausible that, within a few decades at the latest, certain Nato members will become majority non-European.
“As such, it is an open question whether they will view their place in the world, or alliance with the United States, in the same way as those who signed the Nato charter.”
The blistering 33-page National Security Strategy of the United States of America is a wake-up call for the West.
‘Patriotic revival’
It’s particularly scathing of the EU, warning: “The issues facing Europe include activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birth rates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence.”
Offering only a glimmer of hope that figures like Reform UK leader Nigel Farage may turn things around, the strategy will put a rocket under domestic politics across European capitals including London.
In a line to make liberals there choke into cappuccinos, it states: “America encourages its allies in Europe to promote this revival of spirit, and the growing influence of patriotic European parties gives cause for great optimism.”
But I fear the UK Government is sticking a finger in each ear and two more up at the White House.
In Downing Street, unelected economic advisers are arguing to reverse Brexit, and Deputy PM David Lammy is saying publicly we should rejoin the EU’s customs union.
Nothing screams a healthy respect for the public like delaying elections when you are languishing in the polls.
That would render dead the trade deal Britain and the US cut earlier this year, as well as Brexit accords with Japan, Australia, New Zealand and dozens of countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
But this is just the tip of the contempt this Government shows for the public, and what we thought were established rights. And it is not unnoticed across the Pond.
Nothing has baffled more in Washington DC than Lammy’s plan to abolish jury trials for all but the most serious crimes. “The right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury” has been enshrined in the US Constitution since 1791.
Trump’s one-time attorney Christina Bobb tells me: “It shocks my conscience that this is the solution.”
But should we really be so shocked? Despite the chaos sewn by this Labour Government in the past 17 months, with U-turns, dithering and disappointment, the one area it has been quietly competent at is constitutional vandalism.
While the mostly Tory hereditary peers have been sent packing, No10 will in the coming days unveil more than two dozen new Labour members.
On top of the 30 they appointed last December, as they stuff the place with cronies to abolish the one check on Sir Keir Starmer’s Commons majority.
Meanwhile, nothing screams a healthy respect for the public like delaying elections when you are languishing in the polls.
Voters in Greater Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk, Hampshire and the Solent, and Sussex and Brighton, won’t be able to pick their mayors until at least 2028 now.
You don’t have to be TV polling boffin Sir John Curtice to see those are areas where Reform have surged and would likely get another foothold.
There’s irony to how sacred the PM and his legal right-hand man Lord Hermer see international law while more than willing to push to the very limit our own guardrails.
And what about the stuff rammed through without so much as a heads-up to voters before the General Election?
Puffing up
Funny that Labour never mentioned their plan to introduce mandatory digital ID cards in their manifesto.
And the Government don’t seem to have the balls to legalise assisted suicide. It’s clear they have a hand on the tiller of Kim Leadbeater’s bill that seems to have been modelled on a piece of Swiss cheese.
Indeed, Labour gloated before the election, in documents now leaked, how they could distance themselves from such a massive constitutional change, by using a private members’ bill, while still having “heavy influence” over the process.
There’s irony to how sacred the PM and his legal right- hand man Lord Hermer see international law while more than willing to push to the very limit our own guardrails.
And as the White House have made clear, our friends are paying attention.
The Special Relationship gets plenty of puffing up when presidents and prime ministers meet for handshakes.
But surely true friendship is listening when your pals warn you are making catastrophic life choices.
PRESIDENT Trump finally got his peace prize, sort of.
Fifa made up a new award to hand him a big lump of gold at the World Cup draw last night.
Which was probably wise, given that when the US hosted the Club World Cup last summer, The Don was so taken with that giant golden trophy, he kept the original and still has it displayed in his blinged-up Oval Office.
Fifa had to quickly produce a replica to hand winners Chelsea.
I noticed the World Cup trophy was firmly under lock and key this time.
VENEZUELAN drug boats blown out of the Caribbean sea by Pentagon drones and missiles exploded into a political row this week.
After it emerged second, third and even fourth strikes have taken place on cartel vessels despite survivors being visible, the Democrats think they’re on to a damaging scandal. Serving senators have even urged service personnel to disobey orders.
But every Republican strategist I’ve spoken to is delighted by the turn of events. “We were being hammered on affordability and now the Democrats have taken the side of narco terrorists poisoning American kids with fentanyl,” chortled one adviser.
“We know whose side the voters will be on, on this one.”
