We are heading into war

again. I am sitting here reeling at what has, if my sources are correct, just gone on in the Oval Office. I was told that the Ukrainian delegation was actually told to leave. If correct then that is almost unbelievable.

Their crime? Not doing as they were told. There was apparently no attempt to negotiate, no attempt to listen. President Trump has in effect said, "You owe us all the money we have spent on your war. Now you have to pay it back, with interest."

Yes, there are billions of dollars involved. America has put millions of dollars into the defence of Ukraine. They did it because, at the time the war started, it was in their interests to do so. No country spends billions of dollars on a war in another country unless it is in their interests to do just that. 

I have no doubt that the Americans were very well aware of the mineral wealth in Ukraine right from the start. They had other reasons to go in as well of course but, underneath it all, there is money to be made.

Trump is out of control, dangerously out of control.  He is also unpredictable, dangerously unpredictable. Even among the Republicans who publicly support him there is apparently considerable disquiet at his "executive" orders. He is well aware that he is not running a big company but he is testing the boundaries of his office. 

I am wondering what will happen when, inevitably, he argues with Elon Musk. He can sack him of course but what else will happen? The "Department of Government Efficiency" may sound good to some - until they too are in the firing line. Already there has been rebellion. A friend in America responded to the demand to know what she had been doing in the past week with an email saying, "80+hrs saving lives". I don't know if she sent it off to Musk but she did send it out to her mailing list. 

The judiciary has been trying to rein him in but it is difficult to handle someone so unpredictable and so hell-bent on getting his own way.

I also wonder what is going on between President Trump and President Putin. Does Trump owe Putin something? Has Trump been promised something? Their relationship has not really been questioned yet but there must be something there. Putin wants his borders to expand. What has Trump promised?

No doubt we will soon learn much more. Will President Zelensky just capitulate or will Europe move in and rescue him thereby incurring Trump's further wrath? What are the trade implications in all of this?

I have no idea what the answers are of course but when one country decides it needs a "special military operation" to bully another and take what it wants then we cannot do or say nothing. It makes us the next target. Our government seems to think we are "probably" safe from Trump's tariff's and more. It seems very unlikely to me. 

America what have you done to the world?