So, let's see, last week Iran became our new worst enemy. The week before that it was Mexico. The week before that it was China. Australia, which used to be one of our best friends, isn't anymore. Now Russia is our best friend. Which is a little, um, awkward, since Russia and Iran are best friends. They've been best friends a long time. Do you think our so-called President, Donald Trump, gets this? Does he get that Vladimir Putin and the Ayatollah go 'way back, ...that they're the home boys from the same 'hood, living right around the corner from each other, ...while he, Donald Trump, is the rich kid who lives off over in the rich part of town? But the spoiled rich kid wants to pal around with the bad tough kid so that everyone will think that he's a bad tough kid, too. Putin's a killer? So what, sniffs Donald Trump, we do a lot of killing where I come from, too.
...so much so that he'll not only overlook Putin's tyranny and corruption, his poisonings of his opponents and murders of journalists, his anschluss of the people of Crimea, his invasion of Ukraine, and his interference in our own elections. For his part, Donald seems more than happy to leave behind our good, staunch, long-time Western allies while he carries on his flirtation with Putin by flirting with the idea of abandoning NATO, the treaty organization that has kept Europe in a strong and peaceful co-existence for over 70 years. Does Donald believe that his Russian love interest will over-look his boom-lowering on Russia's best friend and homie? Eh, maybe Putin will overlook the dust-up with Iran and let the rich American wanna-be hang with him and be one of the guys. But only until he can get his hands on the rich kid's house keys. References
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/04/politics/donald-trump-vladimir-putin/index.html http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170205/trump-brushes-off-description-of-putin-as-killer-says-us-has-a-lot-of-killers-itself
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
"Tropical Depression"
by Patti Liszkay Buy it on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BTPN7NYY "Equal And Opposite Reactions"
by Patti Liszkay Buy it on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2xvcgRa or from The Book Loft of German Village, Columbus, Ohio Or check it out at the Columbus Metropolitan Library
Archives
February 2025
I am a traveler just visiting this planet and reporting various and sundry observations,
hopefully of interest to my fellow travelers. Categories |