DONALD TRUMP’S new “Board of Peace,” launched today, appropriately enough at the billionaires’ confab in Davos, is a danger to international law, security and peace itself.

It is entirely right to dub it in reality a board for war, as the anti-war movement did.

The clear purpose of the board is to sideline the United Nations and replace the world body with a committee entirely subordinated not just to the United States but to President Trump personally.

Its initial make-up is dominated by despots and extreme rightwingers, like Hungary’s Viktor Orban or Argentina’s Javier Milei. Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu is of course on board, ever-eager to oblige the protector of his atrocities.

Trump himself is to serve as its chair, handing himself sweeping powers, including the right to veto any decision of which he disapproves.

It will doubtless function as a sort of far-right “international” to advance Trump’s imperialist and authoritarian agenda around the world.

The board’s creation was authorised by the UN — mistakenly in our view — specifically in relation to assisting to stabilise the notional ceasefire in Gaza. Its new remit, however, allows it to intervene much more widely.

If it is serious about peace will it stop acts of piracy like Trump’s seizure of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro and his wife?

Will it block moves by Trump to bomb Iran in violation of international law? Will it oppose his aggressive moves to annex Greenland?

Will it challenge his threats to Cuba and Colombia? Or his demand that he be handed control of the Panama Canal, and that Canada become the 51st state of the US?

We know the answer. Its only function will be to legitimise the campaign of aggression and plunder embarked on by the Trump administration, and to provide diplomatic cover for intervention in the affairs of nations across the world.

It is right that the British government has refused to sign up, along with nearly all other European states and, indeed, many others which have been invited, even if the decision was presented in somewhat equivocal terms by Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper.

But it is disgraceful that ministers have not blocked the participation of former Prime Minister Tony Blair. Seen grinning inanely in the front row at today’s launch, he is to serve on the board’s subordinate executive body dealing with Gaza.

Trump made it clear that he looks at the shattered Palestinian territory, site of a continuing genocide, as a real estate opportunity. His son-in-law Jared Kushner appears to be taking the lead in overseeing Gaza’s “reconstruction.”

It is scandalous that a leading figure in British public life should be allowed to participate in this grotesque farce. It is an insult to the Palestinians and the British people alike.

The government must also go further. It framed today’s rejection mainly in relation to Trump’s invitation to Russian President Vladimir Putin to join the board.

The real problem is, as China has pointed out, that it will be used to further undermine the United Nations, already compromised by its failure to act on the Israeli genocide.

Britain should never have anything to do with this obscenity. It must recommit to international law, which means calling out Trump’s crude violations, as in Venezuela.

Despite the fleeting show of toughness over Greenland, British diplomacy is still far too afraid to confront the despot in the White House, even compared to other European states.

It needs to understand that US imperialism’s menace to Greenland was no aberration but merely a reflection of a settled policy of war. The new board is an instrument of that policy. It must be boycotted in every respect.