The economy is the arena where the president must win hearts and minds.
The “weak” elites he attacks are the real enemies of European democracy.
From the podium, it’s Churchillian thunder: prepare for war, deter Russia, stand tall, lead the free world. Back in the engine room, it’s Whitehall with a calculator, sweating through its suit because the numbers simply don’t work.
This is a Commission that confuses moralistic fervour and emotional manipulation with legal authority and slogan-infested political theatre with actual power.
I take the 15 victims at Bondi Beach and divide them by the 71,000 deaths in Gaza as of this writing. I get a fraction of 0.0002143.
Appearing recently on ABC’s This Week. Republican Representative Michael McCaul, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Democratic Senator John Warner, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, criticized the Trump peace plan for the Ukraine War.
Europe confronts a sobering loss of global power as its economic, military and technological influence wanes. Once a model of integration and prosperity, the EU now trails the United States and China economically, while India and ASEAN rapidly close the gap. Without visionary leadership, Europe risks becoming a spectator in a multipolar world it helped create.
BARRING a sudden change of heart by US President Donald Trump, the world will soon witness US imperialism’s bullying of a hapless Third World country: Venezuela. The US’ real motive for this blatant aggression is not as Trump claims America’s need to defend itself from the invasion of illegal drugs. Its inarguable purpose is the same as that for invading Iraq in 2023, which threw the Middle East into the chaos we see today.
