Putin, Trump and the Shaking of Europe’s Political Map

Trump is not exactly a legal scholar. If he wanted to dispatch his gunboats here, he wouldn’t need a judicial pretext.

[T]he U.S. has shifted from prioritizing allies to prioritizing its own interests.

So, to succeed in the trough of graft, a politician must have a profusion of scandals, so many of them all at once such that they would eventually overwhelm the system’s capacity to cope.

Another interesting feature is the absence of non-partisan journalists covering this war.