[Civsoc-mw] View from the Observer

[John Lwanda]

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ObservereditorialMay mustdefend Britain against Trump’s dangerous despotismhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/29/observer-view-britain-america-theresa-may-donald-trump...Sadly for May, for the people of Britain, and all thoseacross the world who depend to varying degrees on the leadership and support ofthe US government, these achievements are likely to prove illusory. HerWashington triumph, if that is what it was, will be short lived. On the issuesthat matter most to Britain, Trump cannot be trusted. When it comes to Nato andthe future of the western alliance, he says contradictory things almost everyday. But his underlying message is that he has little use for an organisationhe views as a drain on American resources. This reflects his hostility tomultilateral collaboration of any kind, be it through trade treaties or the UN.Like his other inarticulate, garbled blatherings, Trump’s Nato promise isworthless...... If Trump were an African dictator or Middle Easterndespot, a friendly visit by the British prime minister would be seen asconferring respectability on him and his policies and thus be deemedill-judged. The dilemma for Britain and the other western democracies is thatarbitrary despotism is an exact description of Trump’s flurry of divisive,ill-considered executive orders last week. Does May, through her fawning,flattering presence, mean to endorse Trump’s bullying, precedent-settingtreatment of Mexico, his less powerful neighbour, and his renewed vow,in a Fox interview, to build a “real, impenetrable wall” between the twocountries? May dodged the question at the White House.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> John Lwanda  
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