Hang on to Your Hats

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I continue, dear readers, the few of you who are still out there, to be distracted by closer community initiatives that are absorbing my time at home. Of course I continue to follow global affairs and rail at the TV now and then, subjecting my poor spouse to my pronouncements.

However, I have one short and sweet observation about what has transpired in geopolitics over the past two months and what I think will happen going forward.

The only thing Trump is concerned about is himself and his image - especially among his "base". Everyone else is depicted as radical leftist vermin. His base does not care, or read, or think ...... cage matches are more important than the fate of the world. The daily stories he tells are far fetched and fanciful, designed to manipulate the public and the markets.

It is exasperating to listen to his drivel. How anyone can take him seriously is beyond my imagination.

But here is the rub ..... Iran uses all of that to its advantage.

Israel is going to screw everything up anyway. And Iran has Trump on the ropes. They know how to play him, and despite their nefarious domestic and regional behaviour they have become (with Trump's help) a power to be reckoned with, rather than just a pariah state.

Hang on to your hats!

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