This list of articles comes from an FT email this morning:
It would seem as if the FT has considered its verdict on Trump and drawn a conclusion. It is apparent that they think that he has failed.
Is that right?
It seems so to me.
It always seemed it was going to be so to me. I did not need the evidence of his actions to know this was the case. His statements of intent were enough.
This, then, is not the issue I intend to spend my weekend musing on. When it comes to Trump, the world is not mistaken. He set out to be bad, and he is succeeding in being so. There are no redeeming features.
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Yes, but we must dig more into how he got there and make sure we know who they are.
Starmer is being credited with cleverly wording his remarks on Putin’s rejection of the proposed ceasefire, in order to explain to Trump that he is the one being manipulated by Putin. It is difficult not to laugh. The US government, diplomats and military in Washington are perfectly well aware of what is happening; and whatever Starmer or the British think, the wise assumption is to act on the judgement that this applies to Trump as well, and always did. The only people who refuse to acknowledge or understand what has happened and what it means, are the British. Starmer’s visit to the Oval Office with his wee letter will go down in history as one of the most cringeworthy diplomatic misjudgements of what has just happened, in history. Baubles are trifles; they don’t change anything, or buy you anything of substance in realpolitik. It is not the first time the British have made this kind of egregious mistake that we will all pay for, and it will not age well; and if we wished, we could even see the Ruritarian irrelevance of Starmer’s diplomacy today, from space. If Starmer wishes to understand what a Special Relationship with the US looks like, he needs to have a quiet word with Netanyahu (although he may keep Starmer waiting for eight hours); or even ….. Putin.
And now Kellogg has been put in a Ukraine-only box by Trump; in order not to inconvenience Putin. I think we can see where we are now goingwith this process: nowhere good.
I was amused by a recent speech given by Jeffery Sachs to the European Parliament in which he compared the British approach to the current situation to that of the Black Knight in the Monty Python sketch……
Correct
If Trump were simply an individual, I would feel deeply sorry for him. What an awful upbringing he must have had, to emerge with total lack of empathy and very poor judgement of others. As it is, His character is causing harm to many. But he was elected. Enough millions of US-ians thought he was fit to be their President. What was wrong with them?
(I say US-ians, because Canadians and Mexicans, and Central and South Americans, are also America. Calling US residents American adds to their sense that they are the ones that matter in that hemisphere)
This maybe what makes the news in the FT, Richard, and perhaps with most people. But far more worrying is that in a real bonkers speech (so, par for the course) yesterday, Trump announced he is now the head of the Justice Department (no other President – not even Nixon – took that view) and also publicly announced that he’s going to go after all the people he considers as his enemies – including law firms that have or are acting against his ‘government’. As you can hear in these clips from MSNBC his stooges in Justice and the FBI have already started going after various people. And additionally, Trump yesterday totally ignored an order from a judge, and took action against another law firm that he sees as against him. So, within two months the rule of law is under serious attack – but thanks to both Republican and Democrat appointed federal judges is just about holding.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show
https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari-melber
Staggering
I was too tired last night to watch
I should have done
Lies> scapegoating> desire for vengeance > silencing of opposing opinion> overriding the law> AUSCHWITZ
The lessons are there to see.
Civil war is a-coming.
Trump’s enablers are doing what he wants because there is something in it for them. No one around him actually likes him. This puts him in a precarious position. He will eventually go after someone who can also call on sufficient transactional support to marshall against him. I think that is what will bring him down. Unfortunately, it’s not likely that the powerful someone he clashes with will have any more interest in the American people than Trump does, and they will be back to square one.