On the future – Amelia Nierenberg in NYT:

‘President Trump said in an interview published on Tuesday that Europe was weak and its nations were “decaying,” days after the Trump administration issued a strategy paper that indicated that the United States should no longer guarantee the continent’s security.’

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‘Later, Mr. Trump said he had watched footage of the Sept. 2 military strike on a boat in the Caribbean that killed survivors of a previous attack on the boat, which the administration has said was involved in drug trafficking. “It’s not pretty,” Mr. Trump said. Lawmakers in Congress have been debating whether the second strike was a war crime.
“Nobody wants to drive boats to America loaded up with drugs anymore,” Trump said. “And we’re gonna hit ’em on land very soon, too.”’

Read the article here.

Again, a maybe-war with Venezuela.

And Europe should ask China for protection.