Europe is ‘decaying’, according to Donald Trump. And in some respects he’s right. Europe’s growth is shit compared to America’s. But the main reason for the ‘decay’ is, as he sees it, immigration. And in some respects he’s right there too.

So he’s taken up a ‘pro-Putin’ stance, or maybe, a stance of Putin appeasement, over Ukraine, welcomed the fucking tyrant back into the world of respectability that he really doesn’t deserve, as his rightful place is alongside Hitler, Stalin and Assad. But only by offering Putin precisely what he wants will ‘it end’. Anything less and the mad Russian will fight on. Why not? He’s got millions more young men forced to die for his cause.

And ‘Europe’, (all of it), is on the side of Ukraine. Because Trump lives ‘over there’, and we live near the Russian borders. So we see the re-growth of the Soviet empire as a real and tangible threat, whereas for Trump, it’s just another shot at the Nobel Peace Prize. Well worth throwing Ukraine under the bus for that.

But it puts Trump in direct opposition to Europe who, let’s face it, can’t muster a leader of any substance between the lot of them. And they’re all scared of Trump anyway because he imposes tariffs at will and is possibly the most unstable personality not currently spending his days in straight jacket. So he uses playground tactics and trash talk as his version of ‘diplomacy’. “The mayor of London is a vile, evil motherfucker” (well, that was implied). Oddly, it’s true, but rather disrespectful when coming from the President.

And the fact is, Trump hates immigrants. He’s now not even too keen on tourists either, if they’re politically divergent from his views, so he’s going to check social media of those applying for tourist visas. Which, to be honest, is no bad thing, unless you were any kind of socialist at any time of your life. Whereas in Europe, we are mired in the ways of ‘human rights’ and its associated horn-of-the-devil, political correctness. To the extent that Europe will allow 100 known terrorists in on a boat just in case there’s one person really in danger of war or persecution in their home nation.

But Trump’s defining move, which has been reported but really hasn’t attained the traction it deserves, is the blowing away (literally) of boats, normally from Nicaragua, suspected of bringing narcotics to the USA.

So these are ‘suspects’, not even proven guilty, but probably drug-runners. And America murders them all. No trial. No sentencing. Just blow them up. These are the low-hanging fruit of the drug world. Not the bosses. Not the ones making millions. Just those doing an illegal job to try and get out of poverty. At great risk. And that’s an assumption anyway. See a boat; bit of ‘intelligence’; blow it, and everyone in it, out of the water.

He’s a complicated man. That word here used as a euphemism for ‘insane’. And that who we have to deal with.

Happy Thursday

A xxxx