Tea and Vitriol

  The Donald is up to his old tricks again. While he fancies himself as Lord God King of the Universe, when crossed The Donald behaves like your typical schoolyard bully: He threatens. Most of the time his threats are empty because he simply does NOT have the power to realize them, but his threats expose the moral bankruptcy of himself, his crime family and his administration. When dealing with the war against Iran, which he and Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu started and cannot win, he stated that he was more than willing to commit war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide to win. Then he stated that he already won the war, which he hasn't. The world has come to see him as a mentally unstable, pathological liar whose credibility has vanished and cannot be trusted. And an oversexed, incontinent liar at that, surrounded by a shady group of henchmen and henchwomen wo, like The Donald, have no grasp of economics on any scale, nor history, nor diplomacy or even decency and manne...

Of balls, that is! Who woulda thunk it? Less than a week ago, US President Donald Trump was at his most bellicose, claiming that he would have Greenland, regardless of what anyone said. The Donald did NOT rule out a military invasion of that island. Furthermore, he slapped more tariffs against 7 European states that loudly opposed his intentions regarding Greenland. Those 7 nations sent a token number of military personnel to show solidarity with the native Greenlanders, who do NOT want to be part of the United States. That fact pissed off The Donald more than somewhat, because the European Union had been capitulating to his demands since he returned to the White House last January. The Donald, as we all know, demands to be obeyed. Yet, 48 hours ago, The Donald stated that he was ruling out military conquest of the island and its annexation to the United States. Instead, he supported extending the status quo regarding American military presence in Greenland, which would permit the Unit...

The European Union, at first glance, appears to be a powerful geo-political entity. Composed of most of the "democracies" of the Western European continent, including the economic powerhouse of Germany, it has tried to pose as one of the world's superpowers. Only it isn't. Comprised of frequently quarreling member states, possessed of a complicated and cumbersome constitutional framework that reveals its impotence daily in the European Parliament, its much-touted successes have always been dependent on the military might of the United States to protect it from itself and the threats to it posed by Russia and her allies. NATO was supposed to act as a deterrent to Russian aggression, at which it has failed repeatedly. Despite all of its economic and industrial potential, the European Union really only ranks as a second-rate power, although it has postured as something far greater. Until yesterday. European Union President Ursula von der Leyen surrendered unconditionally...