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Why Am I Reminded of the Hitler-Stalin Pact?

Posted on 01/03/25 in Politics

I’m not sure any country, however troubled, has fallen from democracy to gangster state in such a short period of time. It’s too early to suggest that the predictions that President Fart would turn to fascism were correct – much depends on what he does with the power he is amassing as he brushes aside the checks and balances that formerly characterised the American Constitution. But there is currently zero cause for optimism.

It’s not so much the betrayal of Zelinskyy and Ukraine, appalling though that was. Worse in strategic terms is the incredible, and incredibly stupid, decision to deny the clear and evident Russian cyberthreat. America now stands with our direct and immediate enemies. Normalisation of diplomatic relations would have been bad enough. This will utterly fragment the Western alliance – where do the Five Eyes stand now? If America opens its back door like this, then we can assume any intelligence shared with them will go, with or without American connivance, straight to our enemies. Europeans didn’t make the zero sum world, but we (including Britain) now have to treat it as such.

What a vile man Fart is. One of the most shocking things he has done is to remove the security detail from people at serious risk, such as John Bolton and Mike Pompeo. I have always been mystified by the willingness of perhaps controversial but otherwise respectable people to go along with Fart’s self-centred lawlessness and make fools of themselves, from Giuliani to McConnell and now Rubio. It may seem sensible and transactional to brown-nose him in the present, but in the history books it will be evident, say, what a lickspittle Lindsay Graham has been, consistently prepared to jettison supposed ‘principles’ at a word from Fart. Even if Fart’s policies don’t plunge us into global depression or World War III (big ‘if’), these egregious toadies can take no credit, since they have adopted the roles of flunkies devoid of will or integrity.