British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

JonH comes home wrote:

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Being reported Qatar Royal Family have gifted Trump a 747/800 for air force one, which Trump can them use afterwards. Really? Is that allowed? The gift?

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There's clearly no bottom to Trump's barrel!    The article looks at the legality of his accepting the gift.  He couldn't even resist overplaying the nature of the "gesture" by describing it as a gift "free of charge" in his Truth Social post! 

Read this & despair!

There's probably a case to be made for the claim that the rich countries of western Europe have for too long relied on US funding & US troops for their security & we need now to face up to the fact that "pax Americana" is dead, but, so far as I can tell (without actually reading it!), the document setting out Trump's new national security strategy apparently has the temerity to suggest that Europe is itself the problem - a decadent continent facing "civilisational erasure" whose governments must be replaced by "patriotic parties" more to Washington's taste!  That smacks of a desire for the US to interfere in European politics rather than disengage from it.

Did we ever imagine that "Nanny" would desert us?  Whether or no, we (& the other European countries which make up the so-called Coalition of the Willing) need to decide what we are going to do in "her" absence, bearing in mind that, as a result of the US's abrupt decoupling from Europe as our security guarantor, Ukraine is almost certainly lost.  $64,000 question:  have the Europeans sufficient combined backbone to tell Trump where to get off?!!  Somehow I doubt it.