Seriously he might manage to be devastating to the American public, but it is far less likely to have much impact on the rest of the world, beyond Palestine.Alias wrote: ↑October 1st, 2018, 12:06 pm The trouble is, these days, with technology and all the environmental, economic and human crises, very bad things can happen very fast. Trump is temporary, but he'll leave a wide swathe of devastation - not least, as the harbinger of this current spate of fascist, fascist-like and fascist-lite administrations world-wide. I'm not saying it's his personal fault, only that his prominence has encouraged all the wood-worms to come forth. Most of them won't be as easy to replace as he is...
...and I'm somewhat apprehensive as to the agenda of the president-in-waiting, should Trump spontaneously combust or bit a peach.
Is all hope of the ideal of international law now dead?
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There sure is an awful lot of missile-rattling!
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