It's Friday and you probably feel you've been in the boxing ring with World Events this week although we never really know with a President who is so unpredictable and sometimes seems to revisit positions having flipped from the previous one days before.
We've been from an overt threat to annex Greenland by force to some sort of deal around security that doesn't include the United States owning and controlling it, threats of massive trade tariffs to countries in the EU, those out such as Canada and the United Kingdom who opposed what would of been an attack on another NATO country.
Beyond the whole issue of sovereignty, the utter rejection of the principle of self-determination - that is to say only the people of a country have the right to set their own future governance - was shocking just because he wanted it for security.
Yet that security could easily of been got by more people on the American base, greater use of exercises by NATO powers and increased joint surveillance at sea with maybe a lease for a defence system being negotiated that might of included rent. A win for all.
Instead we feel less secure, Russia and China are openly laughing at an alliance that is at war with each other undermining the very protection we've all enjoyed from both of those powers over the decades and even potentially emboldening them to consider naked aggression.
Thank you America!
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