When Friends Become Enemies.

Trump is raising a few eyebrows over on this side of the pond. His latest irrational invective feeding into the redneck myth that the USA alone won WWII, coupled with what was effectively an accusation of cowardice directed at British troops in Afghanistan, has not gone down well. Several eminent British historians including Sir Simon Sharma have gone public with the opinion that the USA is no longer our ally, inviting the notion that the UK, along with the rest of Europe, is fighting a proxy war against America. Maybe it will reach a point where all American citizens domiciled in Europe will be constrained in internment camps as were the Japanese during WWII. (I’m kidding, of course, but what an interesting bit of irony would be granted to the history books of the future.)

And then there’s the issue of Trump and the ‘Peace Board.’ This is so transparently hypocritical that it’s almost laughable. It’s pretty obvious that the big man is not happy with a multinational organisation like the UN, and instead wants the world to be regulated by the USA with himself in charge. He’s beginning to resemble the worst of the Roman emperors, so maybe it will take the US equivalent of the Praetorian Guard to show him the way out. (And I’m not entirely kidding about that one.)

It’s interesting that we’ve been talking and worrying about the prospect of a third world war for a long time, but not until Trump started dropping the ball on every pass did we imagine that the combatants might be the USA and Europe. I wonder what Russia and China would do then. And I wonder what part Japan and India might play. Scary, isn’t it? Let’s hear it for the Praetorian Guard then. I’ve been thinking for some time that the American military top brass might be the best remedy to rid the world of this turbulent president.