“The people at the top of our system, whether they’re politicians or officials or journalists or think tankers like me, we’re all totally focused on Brexit,” said Charles Grant, who heads the London-based Center for European Reform. “We haven’t thought about Trump as much as we should have.”

It is possible that Prime Minister Theresa May, by throwing in her lot with Mr Trump, could ride out any changes to the international order. But if that approach does not succeed, it could have severe consequences both for her nation and for the world that Britain plays a role in keeping together. Ms May has sought to win over Mr Trump, whom she will visit this week, just as her European counterparts are exploring more fundamental questions about American reliability.

“The British debate on Trump is over very trivial stuff, like who Trump spoke to before May, and the German debate is over the future of the liberal order in the West,” said Mark Leonard, the director of the London-based European Council on Foreign Relations.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the German foreign minister, wrote in a column this week for the German newspaper Bild that, with Mr Trump’s election, “the old world of the 20th century is gone” and that Germany could confront drastic changes.

Where Americans go wrong is in failing to recognize that there’s always a catch to such devil’s bargains purportedly carried out for the good of all society.

You want free education for your children? The government can take care of it. In exchange for free public schools, however, your children will be molded and indoctrinated into compliant, obedient citizens who reflect the government’s values rather than your own.

You want free health care? The government can take care of that, too. In exchange, your medical decisions — how you live and die — will ultimately be determined by corporations to whom you are little more than a line item impacting their profit and loss margins.

You want to be insulated from all things that might cause offense? That’s not a problem for the government. Its thought police will use hate crime laws to criminalize speech, thought and actions that may be politically incorrect.

You want a guarantee of safety? Sure, but your local police will also have to be militarized and trained in battlefield tactics, your communities and communications will be subjected to round-the-clock surveillance, and you — the citizenry — will be treated as suspects and enemy combatants.

You want to root out domestic extremism and terrorism? That’s just fine. But in the process of identifying and targeting terrorists, the government will have the power to label anyone who disagrees with its policies as an extremist/terrorist and subject them to indefinite detentions.

Are you starting to get the picture?

This is the terrible price — the loss of our freedoms and the enslavement of future generations — that must eventually be paid for the goods and services rendered by a government whose priorities are the acquisition of ever-more power, control and money. As the old adage warns: “A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take away everything that you have.”

US President Donald Trump, in a break with previous administrations, has vowed to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the American embassy there.

“Transferring the US embassy to Jerusalem would be a public and more explicit than ever declaration of war against Islam,” said the Shiite cleric, leader of the powerful Mahdi Army militia responsible for attacks against US troops in Iraq a decade ago, according to Middle East Eye.

Sadr called for the “formation of a special division to liberate Jerusalem were the decision to be implemented” and urged the Cairo-based Arab League, as well as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the world’s leading pan-Islamic body, to either take decisive action on the issue or disband themselves.

“Here is a case where the United States, for years, has let Beijing tell us who we could talk to in Taiwan. Just think about that for a minute. And now we have other governments telling us where we can put our embassy in Israel. Can they tell us where to put our embassy in Canada?” he asked sarcastically. “I’m not talking about relations with Canada or Israel. I’m talking about Germany saying, ‘Well, you can’t put your embassy in Canada there.’”

“Obviously the Middle East is a sensitive area,” he conceded. “You want to be prudent, you want to be careful. But you ought to do what the United States needs to have done. The qualms that others may have are things you need to alleviate, you need to deal with, you need to be reasonable about it, but they’re not qualms that stop you from acting in your own interest.”

“President Donald Trump raised concerns during the campaign by asserting that some allies are not pulling their weight and by suggesting that he might not object to Japan or South Korea developing their own nuclear weapons if they do not pay more for US military support,” Stars & Stripes noted in reporting Mattis’ travel agenda.

A defense official told CNN that “folks in Japan are very happy about the visit.” Japan has been looking to improve its military capabilities to deal with potential threats from China and North Korea.

The metaphorical clock assesses the danger of apocalypse based on the threats such as nuclear Armageddon, bioterrorism, climate change and other catastrophes. The group of experts behind the clock, known as the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, reset the time every year according to the threat level. Atomic scientists created the Doomsday Clock in 1947 as a response to the growing nuclear threats facing the world. 

It was the brainchild of the nuclear scientists who were involved in the Manhattan project - the scheme that created the first nuclear weapons. The physicists unveiled the Doomsday Clock after the atomic bombs they had helped to create decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War Two.

Co-founder Eugene Rabinowitch said: “The Bulletin's clock is not a gauge to register the ups and downs of the international power struggle; it is intended to reflect basic changes in the level of continuous danger in which mankind lives in the nuclear age.” Just two days after Donald Trump's inauguration, the bulletin warned: "Terrorism involving nuclear or radiological materials remains one of the gravest threats to humanity and to global stability."

The Doomsday Clock came the closest it has ever been to midnight in 1953 during the Cold War. This was the year that the US created the hydrogen bomb. At the time, the Bulletin warned: "Only a few more swings of the pendulum, and, from Moscow to Chicago, atomic explosions will strike midnight for Western civilisation.”

In 1953, the clock was TWO MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT.

She will tell them that after Brexit, a "sovereign, global" Britain wants to enhance ties with its "old friends". On Friday, Mrs May will be the first world leader to hold face-to-face talks with Mr Trump in the White House. Post-Brexit trade opportunities, security and intelligence co-operation and the future of Nato are likely to feature significantly in the talks.

Theresa May is walking into a meeting with the most unorthodox president in decades, a man who today she will flatter, calling for the US and UK to "lead together again" as he starts to "renew his nation". A man who has found huge popularity among millions of voters precisely because he doesn't care for politician norms.

But also a man with whom Theresa May disagrees overtly on a very long list of issues, whose views millions of other voters are deeply worried about, who has just suggested he might support torture as president. The prime minister believes that she can draw on the relationship and traditions between our two countries to talk frankly to President Trump, to disagree as well as discuss.

Her aides say "she's not scared of anyone" and that the potential advantages of getting closer to the United States are well worth the risks of accusations of cosying up to a president who is not afraid of offending anyone - who has even made it a trademark.

In the Oval Office Mr Trump signed an executive order formally withdrawing the US from the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, an agreement with 11 Pacific Rim countries that was backed by President Barack Obama as part of his "pivot" to strengthen ties with Asia. After signing Mr Trump said: "Great thing for the American worker that we just did."

He also reinstated the so-called Mexico City Policy, a ban on giving taxpayers' money to international groups that perform or provide information on abortions. Mr Obama had rescinded the ban in 2009. The president announced his son-in-law and key adviser Jared Kushner would meet with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ahead of an effort to renegotiate the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) between the two countries and Mexico.

Mr Trump held a breakfast meeting at the White House with a dozen business leaders including Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, and executives from Dell, Johnson & Johnson, US Steel, and Lockheed Martin. He warned them he would impose a "substantial border tax" on companies moving their manufacturing out of the US, and promised tax breaks for those producing in America.

The first of the two draft orders, titled “Auditing and Reducing US Funding of International Organizations” and obtained by The New York Times, calls for terminating funding for any United Nations agency or other international body that meets any one of several criteria.

Those criteria include organizations that give full membership to the Palestinian Authority or Palestine Liberation Organization, or support programs that fund abortion or any activity that circumvents sanctions against Iran or North Korea. The draft order also calls for terminating funding for any organization that “is controlled or substantially influenced by any state that sponsors terrorism” or is blamed for the persecution of marginalized groups or any other systematic violation of human rights.

The order calls for then enacting “at least a 40 percent overall decrease” in remaining United States funding toward international organizations.

Yes, Donald Trump has done and said some things that are very regrettable over the years, but many Americans were willing to overlook those imperfections because at least he was willing to go to battle.  Now that he is president, will he inspire millions of other men to finally start acting like men again?

Too many men today would rather go to the spa than pick up a shovel.

Too many men today speak of the need for “safe spaces” and “trigger warnings”.

Too many men today are living in a state of suspended adolescence and are putting off marriage and family indefinitely.

Too many men today are more likely to be called a “snowflake” rather than a “warrior”.

Women want men that will love them, protect them and provide for them. Unfortunately, those kinds of men are being systematically demonized in our society today.  To the liberal mind, the “traditional man” has come to represent “male oppression” that must be eradicated at all cost.

This may sound strange to you, but this is the kind of philosophy that is being pounded into the minds of impressionable young adults at colleges and universities all across the nation.  And some of these impressionable young adults buy into this philosophy to a frightening degree.