Look, I’m supposed to be on holiday. Relaxing. Eating. Drinking. Swimming. Nightclubbing. OK, eating and drinking for sure. It’s what you do. Even in Croatia. Where it’s 31 degrees today on our sweet little island of Hvar. But how ‘sweet’ is Croatia?

Inspired by a lawyer with a victim complex, I investigated further my holiday nation’s links to the Germans. Unfortunately, it’s the starting point for any Jew: what was YOUR grandfather doing in 1943? And our walking tour guide yesterday told me that her grandfather was ‘invaded by the Nazis and overthrown’. Oh, like France was? Where the ‘overthrown’ became active participants of the Nazis? Or like Holland. Where they were just a defeated nation?

Well the Nazis played the Croatians who were unhappy with losing their independence in the formation of Yugoslavia. So they brought them ‘onside’ (or, well ‘offside’ according to both VAR and the right side of history) as accomplices. On the basis that they could slaughter all the Serbs they wanted, as long as they included Jews and gypsies as well. Sounded good to Croatia. As it did in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, all willing and eager ‘converts to Hitler’s cause’.

So, in the interests of a lovely holiday, I doing care what anyone’s grandfather did in the war, for the next 6 days. Easier that way.

And we have new wars to consider anyway now that Iran has ‘attacked the USA’.

One of the Ayatollah’s missiles landed on the US embassy in Tel Aviv. And embassies, as we know, occupy land which belongs to that embassy’s nation, not the host one. So, effectively, Iran has attacked America. Albeit because their missile guidance systems probably still use short-wave radios and homing pigeons. But how will Donald Trump answer this attack? Always the great unknown in any situation.

Trump is all bluster and brag and John Wayne and a mans’ gotta do what a man’s gotta do. Until that man has to actually do it. And realises that there are just so many implications to any possible course of action.

He’s right now sending his Air Force into the area. That’s tough-guy. But he knows that the whole ‘MAGA’ thing was looking after America first. So fighting wars in far away countries which no-one in Alabama has even heard of, simply doesn’t fit that remit. Americans, after Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, do not want to lose any of their sons fighting any more towel-heads. They don’t want to spend billions bombing anyone further away than Mexico, or possibly Canada. And they’re Trump’s fan base.

Yet he is sworn to aid Israel and has to decide what level of ‘involvement’ he needs to still be the wild-west shooter his stance proclaims, whilst appeasing those who put him in the White House.

I’m going to lie by the pool and consider my options.

Happy Tuesday

A xxxx