The news and updates come at a blistering pace. It’s hard to keep up with the volume and impact. But the quality of content? It is frighteningly stupefying.
The Trump administration has been hellbent on upending the everyday normal. Steve Bannon’s “flooding the zone” strategy, which The New York Times describes as a “deliberate effort by the president and his team to roll out an unceasing flow of initiatives [which] has knocked his rivals off balance,” appears to be working. However, it isn’t only rivals that seem to be off balance. It is the whole span of American and global society.
America’s neighbors, Canada and Mexico, face rocketing tariffs and insults. Greenland and the Panama Canal are being threatened by American conquest. Our worldwide friends and allies are being bullied rhetorically, and even our cherished NATO partners are being questioned and pushed around verbally. To demonstrate American exceptionalism?
No country is more at the point of the Trumpian spear than Ukraine, and paradoxically, no country has escaped the vitriol more than Russia. Incredibly, Trump and some members of his administration have even stated that it was Ukraine that started the war against Russia and that the Ukrainian president is a “dictator.” These are bald-faced lies, and a few of the braver members of the Republican Party have even pointed this out publicly.
