Seems like Putin's angle is to use this tiny trickle to push the US away from supporting attacks on Russian oil refineries.
Which will be a difficult double-standard to apply, but only entry-level mental gymnastics for the Trump administration.
Which will be a difficult double-standard to apply, but only entry-level mental gymnastics for the Trump administration.
Meanwhile: Trump can still do a lot more damage than he has done so far and it does not seem to me that there are any guardrails around this. November will be very interesting, it is essentially the moment when it will be decided whether the USA will step back from the edge or jump.
Worst case, you don’t end up like Ukraine: trying to cash promises made by those who said they’d protect you. The cost is cheap, a bit more of annual EU GDP into the future.
(1) It is all so blatantly false and yet people seem to lap it up.
(2) The people that expect the rest of the world to put Trump in his place, he is their problem, the rest of the world can only deal with the fall-out.
(3) The people that claim that because they didn't vote for Trump that they are not responsible. If you're not protesting or striking then you too are responsible. All these feeble excuses have no weight, either you concede your responsibility or you do something about it.
And last but definitely not least:
(4) This could be over tomorrow. But apparently the rot is so extensive that all checks and balances have failed because the lot of them are bought and paid for or have checked their conscience at the door.