US president loses grip on reality, while delegates at a rightwing conference in London remain cocooned from real world
took some beating. Hot on the tail of excluding Ukraine from the first round of peace talks with Russia and in effect threatening to withdraw the US from Nato, the Donald has now suggested it was Kyiv who started the war with Moscow.
Claiming Ukraine started the war was like believing that Poland invaded Germany to trigger the second world war. Or maybe the Poles were just suffering from false consciousness and were yet to understand they wanted to be subjugated by the Germans. Hell, maybe Trump thinks “no means no” is just some politically correct wokery and that when the Ukrainians said they would rather not become Russian what they were really saying was: “Yes, please. Do what you like.
So spare a thought for junior minister Diana Johnson, who found herself scheduled to do the morning media round for the government. She had hoped she would be called on to talk about the latest knife crime initiative but found herself asked about Trump’s latest dangerous ramblings. You could almost hear the panic in her voice. Whatever you do, don’t criticise the president. Just say it’s all very interesting but Ukraine must be involved in its own peace negotiations.
Any discussion on the most important issues of the day, like the war in Ukraine, appeared to have been kept off the schedule. Just speaker after speaker congratulating themselves on saying the unsayable, apparently unaware that no one was stopping them saying anything. If you want to understand the importance of free speech, ask Alexei Navalny. Except you can’t.
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