Trump calls the shot

 Another stampede resulting in fatalities at a train station bringing Indians to the Hindu Festival just happened. Lessons are never learned in India and disasters happen all the time.

A bromance is blooming between Trump and Modi, or so we think. Trump is all about 'USA first' and he still wants to Make America Great Again, doing everything in that direction, even pushing long standing allies under the bus. Modi is looking at MIGA or Make India Great Again. They complement each other, each is going to make the other great again, or so they think.

Europe was the die-hard ally of the USA through thick and thin, even willing to commit economic suicide to help the USA. What did Europe get in return? Now the USA is not even sounding out the Europeans while conducting peace talks between Trump and Putin regarding Ukraine. The Europeans are mad and calling 'any quick fix is a dirty deal'. Imagine giving so much aid over the last two years and being described as 'irrelevant' by the NATO dictator.

Having said that, peace talks regarding Ukraine are sometime mind boggling. When Zelenskyy talks about holding peace talks, Russia is excluded. What kind of peace talks are they holding? Now Zelenskyy, being kept away from the peace talk between Trump and Putin, is throwing tantrums about being excluded. Of course, any peace talk without Zelenskyy is as mind boggling as any peace talks set up by Zelenskyy without Putin's participation. It works both ways.

Trump is clearly telling the Europeans it is the USA inside NATO that calls the shots in Europe and the Europeans are just proxies fighting on behalf of the USA in Ukraine. Fancy, after giving so much support to the USA in Ukraine and being told they are irrelevant must be a hard pill to swallow.

Now the Europeans leaders are calling an emergency summit of their own, knowing that they are being thrown under the bus. Too little too late. Now the EU is no longer in a position to strike a bargain with the USA, being economically destroyed and highly dependent of USA energy.

Anonymous