Wrong, Donald
DONALD Trump’s smearing of the Ukraine regime as scam artists who provoked a war using US taxpayers’ money is a rant beneath the dignity of his office.
Almost nothing in it is true.
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It reads like a post on a forum for conspiracy theorists. It is an unprecedentedly shocking statement from the President of the United States.
Vladimir Putin has made no secret of his imperialist ambitions, nor his denial of his neighbour’s right to exist as a sovereign, free country.
He invaded Ukraine, butchered and raped its people, stole its children and bombed its cities.
President Zelensky — far from duping anyone or inviting the conflict, far from being a “dictator without elections” — has been a heroic wartime leader who needs Western aid to overcome staggering odds.
The idea he is riding a “gravy train” is laughable. And his people, with whom he remains highly popular whatever Trump claims, have resisted conquest with immense bravery.
It is troubling and short-sighted in the extreme for the so-called leader of the free world to have no interest in a war raging in Europe because he is separated from it by the Atlantic.
America is not a business where Trump, as CEO, has no task except to slash costs and maximise profits. It is the most powerful democracy on Earth with global responsibilities and — let’s be frank — a duty to discern right from wrong with absolute moral clarity.
Others in the White House should urgently point this out.
UK unplugged
AFTER seven months of this “growth- focused” Government, the only things growing are inflation and the dole queue.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves will argue that wages are too. But prices now rising at three per cent erode those rapidly.
Many of the causes of this gloom were self-inflicted in last October’s tax- raising, business-battering Budget.
But it is also impossible for Britain to prosper when our firms pay the world’s highest energy prices.
America is booming on cheap gas. We are crushed beneath our costs.
“Energy and Net Zero” Secretary Ed Miliband should be focused solely on providing cheap, secure electricity. But he is interested only in the latter brief.
And while he cynically pretends Net Zero will somehow cut bills, industry experts Cornwall Insight say that will take “years”.
Miliband refuses to extract the vast gas supplies beneath the UK via fracking or new North Sea drilling. Instead we import it, at massive cost, while he fantasises about unreliable wind and solar. He is a lost cause.
When will Keir Starmer install a replacement, hell-bent on slashing bills for homes and businesses within weeks and getting the stagnant economy moving?
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