The BBC reports:

[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c04vdengk3do]

President Donald Trump's administration has warned that Europe faces "civilisational erasure" and questioned whether certain nations can remain reliable allies, in a new strategy document that puts a particular focus on the continent.

The 33-page National Security Strategy sees the US leader outline his vision for the world and how he will wield US military and economic power to work towards it.

Trump described the document as a "roadmap" to ensure America remains "the greatest and most successful nation in human history".

Predictably this is not going to go down well in Europe.

Germany's Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul pulled his head out of the sand and said his country did not need "outside advice".

'Western identity' is already in terminal decline and the EU has completely lost its way, especially over the Ukraine war.

The document also accused the European Union and "other transnational bodies" of carrying out activities that "undermine political liberty and sovereignty", said migration policies were "creating strife" and said other issues included "censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence".

But Europe refuses to go on the naughty step.