Ahhhh, tis a wicked web you weave if at first you do invade Ukraine, or defend yourself from murdering, raping terrorists, or plan to build a nuke.

Probably like you, I’d always felt that America elected themselves as ‘guardians of the free world’ and international peace keepers, which they demonstrate by sending troops to invade other countries, and use bluster and threat to keep the world in order. This is probably because the dollar rules the entire world and it’s their buck. Bitcoin was proposed really as an alternative, being so international and secure that no-one really wanted them, other than as a dodgy investment vehicle which could turn you into a billionaire or a homeless bum within 10 days of purchase. The BRIC countries are the ones who feel America’s had it too good for too long, with China getting especially pissed off every time President Xi has to write a cheque in $$$$$. And yet, America rules, the dollar rules.

And if you had any doubts about our friends in the ‘special relationship’, the prospect of having Trump at the helm once again, steering his meandering, almost drunken, way through the turbulent seas of world events, seems to have been demonstrated this week.

Biden, in a final push, like a dying mother giving birth to triplets, has permitted Ukraine to fire US made missiles into Russia. Putin has all but declared war on America, Europe and everyone else, with emphatic threat of nuclear attack. Trump wants to ‘negotiate a peace’ which, to be honest, makes more sense than trying to play chicken with Putin.

Then on Thursday the ICC placed arrest warrants for Binyamin Netanyahu and the (dead) leader of Hamas. With all due respect, the ICC are a bunch of totally one-sided tossers following their own agenda and desperate to improve their frankly risible reputation. The leader of Hamas is, firstly, dead, and secondly, a fucking terrorist. He’s not guilty of ‘war crimes’ but of mass murder, rape and extreme terrorism. Even implying some kind of equivalence with Netanyahu, even if you really hate Netanyahu, is simply ignorant and wrong.

Americans have now stated that not only do they think the ICC ruling to be ridiculous, meaning the Israeli would not be arrested in America, the incoming Trump team also state that any countries who promise to abide by the ICC ruling will get sanctioned by them. And that, basically, means us.

And as Starmer’s plan is to build trade links with America without duties being imposed, our hapless PM needs to think long and hard before he does his normal knee-jerk, virtue-signalling reply.

Trump will also do all in his power to prevent Iran becoming nuclear in arms. Something Obama actually facilitated because he ‘trusted them’. Iran? Trust??? Trump, for all his faults, knows better.

So yeah, we’re all waiting to see what happens next. Who blinks first.

And it won’t be me. I’ve been practicing my ‘stare’.

Happy Friday

A xxxx