The worse Trump behaves, the more room there is for optimism
What is it about the Americans who have inflicted Donald Trump on themselves and their fellow citizens as president? It can’t just be that the Democrats have consistently fielded weak and unappealing candidates for the job. Why the Democrats do that is another story altogether. But Trump – the idiot king – emerged as the candidate of the Republican Party. […]
The ground is increasingly fertile for an Irish Maga
“America is, understandably, sentimentally attached to the European Continent – and, of course, to Britain and Ireland. The character of these countries is also strategically important because we count upon creative, capable, confident, democratic allies to establish conditions of stability and security. We want to work with aligned countries that want to restore their former […]
It’s worth asking again why Sinn Féin sent a delegation to Maduro’s inauguration
Listening to a backbench Tory in the House of Commons arguing in the case of the armed abduction of Nicolás Maduro that “the end justifies the means”, I was reminded of a saying more fashionable in my childhood: “Two wrongs don’t make a right.” As I wrote on December 17th, the recent US national security strategy ought to be read by […]
Trump’s disturbing National Security Strategy should be required reading
Because European governments and, to a greater or lesser extent European mainstream media, are playing a rather supine diplomatic game with the Trump administration, the raw import of the Trump administration’s recently promulgated National Security Strategy document has probably passed most European citizens by. But it is available online in all its crudity and menace […]
Trump isn’t a peace maker, he’s a piece taker
When the Netflix bid for part of Warner Bros business hit the headlines, I wondered why Donald Trump warned of problems with the takeover bid. On Monday, it emerged that Paramount Studios was launching a competing hostile bid financed by a consortium of various parties, sourced in the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi. Trump’s […]
What exactly does Vladimir Putin hold over the cowardly Donald Trump?
Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the Ukrainian president, was subjected to a second brutal Trump ambush in the Oval Office last Friday. This time, the cameras were not allowed to witness the idiot king’s brutish behaviour. But the Financial Times broke the story, which was based on accounts of eyewitnesses, that Donald Trump engaged in a shouting match, swearing at Zelenskiy, throwing […]