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‘It’s time to stop pandering to racist president plotting Europe’s demise’
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Reader points out ‘openly racist comments’ made by Trump
Donald Trump has descended to new depths in his comments about Somalis.
In words painful even to quote, he said, ‘I don’t want them in our country’ and that the US would ‘go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage’.
These are openly racist comments – comments that presumably would lead to a police investigation on the grounds of a hate crime if a person had said them in this country.
And yet only three months ago, when much was already known about how unsavoury he is, Trump was invited for a state visit to Britain. During this, at the expense of us taxpayers, he was treated to a state banquet, a carriage procession and grand pageantry.
This contemptible man now needs to be banned from Britain, as his presence would clearly not be conducive to the public good. SM, London
Does the UK ‘wish to become a vassal state at the beck and call of the American president’, reader questions
The recently published US National Security Strategy should have leaders in all our parties asking whether we, as a sovereign nation, wish to become a vassal state at the beck and call of the American president.
It is truly Orwellian in its structure, effectively announcing that it is so powerful that it has the right to determine the political complexion of all of its former allies and implying that they should totally align with the objectives of the Maga movement. It is fascism and should be called out for that.
It is time that the remains of Nato reconstituted and considered carefully who should be members and those circumstances under which membership should be automatically annulled.
We need a strong, cohesive and focussed alliance that is not led by a country that would happily force capitulation on a country that has been brutally invaded.
Moreover, we need all our principle defence equipment suppliers to be committed to mutual deterrence and not surrender as soon as Russia dangles a deal that is advantageous to that country! Roger Morris, Mitcham
Is ‘The Great Orange Dictator’ plotting Europe’s economic collapse?
Trump’s cynical and immoral defence strategy has one aim – to destroy Europe’s economic independence.
The Great Orange Dictator seems to believe that if he withdraws all military and economic support from Ukraine, European countries (including the UK) will have to fill the gap at immense cost.
In doing so, Trump figures that our economies and societies will collapse. At that point, US vulture capitalists will be free to feed on the carcass.
Trump has made it very clear that democracy and self-determination overseas are of no importance.
Whether particular parcels of the European landmass are controlled by Kyiv, Moscow or a tech trillionaire is irrelevant – all that matters is whether the US and the Trump family can benefit from its exploitation. For that reason, the US, working in concert with Russia, must now be regarded as an enemy of the UK and the democracies of Europe.
We ignore these realities at our peril. For the first time in 80 years, we face the prospect of war.
Our land and democracy are under threat from the east and our economy faces an equally powerful assault from the west. We urgently need to prepare our defence on both fronts. Stephen Spark, Balham
Reader says, the fact is, ‘Vladamir Putin doesn’t want peace’
Trump may withdraw from the peace process between Russia and Ukraine because Europe and the Ukraine won’t agree to his ludicrous deal.
Good! Europe can work better with Ukraine to create a deal with Russia that doesn’t sell the Ukraine down the Swanee river. The fact is Vladimir Putin doesn’t want peace.
He keeps sabre-rattling by making threats to Nato and European countries that support Ukraine yet, after four years of trying, cannot even subdue Ukraine.
Countries such as Poland and Finland have used this time to strengthen their country’s defences. Russia tried once before to invade Finland and ended up with egg on their faces.
Europe doesn’t need America’s help – Trump is more of a hindrance.
Let Trump focus on Making America Grim Again with his plans to set the US civil rights movement back 50 years. Martin J Phillips, Leeds
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