So I ‘get’ Donald Trump. I really do. He just doesn’t do details to any extent. Only money details, then its to the nearest hundredth of a cent. Everything else is just ‘big; really big’ or ‘doing great things’ or lovely broad brush stroke sentences which are meaningless in any analytical way.

I just don’t see how world peace is served, as he claimed yesterday, by a $142billion deal with Saudi Arabia to provide arms. Guns. Rockets. Missiles. Ammunition. Ordinance. Fighter planes. Nuclear fucking warheads for all I know. Does that sound ‘peaceful’?? 142 bil gets you some serious fire-power. I’m even a bit pleased because a few bucks’ worth of the sharp ends will probably find their way into a few Houthis in Yemen, and we all hate the fucking Houthis. The deal will also scare the shit out of Iran, so that’s also a big positive. And the Saudis are our allies. They pally with Israel. They’re anti-terrorist, even though al-quaeda was started there. That’s not Mohammed bin Salman’s fault. He wasn’t even there at the time. He was over in Turkey having dissenting journalists murdered.

But now Donald is moving further afield in the Middle East. Syria, to be precise. Now that the horrible, tortuous, murdering Assad regime has been deposed, Trump is pallying up to the new, de facto leader, Ahmad al-Sharaa, the former al-quaeda terrorist, American held prisoner and now the guv’nor of the new ‘free’ Syria. Unless you’re an Alawite, then you stand a good chance of dying or disappearing, rather than enjoying ‘freedom’. Trump feels that this ‘attractive young man’ (WTF???) has a chance of ‘greatness’. Furthermore, Syria is appealing to America because of its oil and gas reserves for which it will need help in accessing. Trump’s really good at digging holes in other people’s countries.

I think that if the nation of Qatar offered to give me a 300 million pound plane to fly on, I’d take it. Especially as its fitted out for Royalty. And though possibly a bit more ‘Prince Andrew’ than ‘Queen Victoria’, we’re talking majorly ‘flash’ here. The Qataris have fitted it out with all the luxury and gadgetry you could ever wish for; champagne fridges, cocaine tables, pussy-grabbing recliners and secret compartments for Hamas leaders to cross borders undetected.

You can’t expect moral judgments from Donald Trump. Just not gonna happen.

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx