For the foreign minister of the United Kingdom to announce in a newspaper that Russia is “closed, nasty, militaristic and antidemocratic” is a straightforward declaration of hostility. But who cares? Britain can’t do anything to Russia — or any other country, for that matter.
President Trump is a new phenomenon on the American political scene. Not a professional politician begging for funds but a rich man who spent his own money and raised money on his own name: he arrived in office unencumbered with obligations. Free from a history in politics, he owes nothing to anyone.
If Trump does pursue an economic ‘containment of China’ strategy – and China and allies respond – what will be the effect on ‘risk free’ US Treasury values in the wake of a major segment of the global economy going its own way?
Trump and his supporters are no different than the genocidal Americans of the past who systematically destroyed peaceful Native American cultures and emergent nation-states. Americans should forever live in shame over their Holocaust of the Native American peoples and nations.
