It’s embarrassing watching western leaders trot to the US attempting to get on the right side of Trump.
Yesterday the US president when asked about calling the Ukrainian leader a dictator replied: ‘did I say that? I can’t believe I said that.'
Sir Keir Starmer presented President Trump with a letter from King Charles inviting him to another State visit. It even looked embarrassing an this from a British Labour prime minister.
President Trump seems to love every country and everyone. It’s beyond funny. He’s great friends with people he has met for five minutes.
He talked about his golf clubs in the UK and then mentioned Doonbeg in Ireland.
And while Trump and Starmer are talking and laughing, the Tate brothers are flying in a private jet to the United States.
It’s difficult not to look on and laugh, maybe even cry.
During the Soviet era the world looked on as the leaders of vassal states paid homage to the man in the Kremlin. The running to the White House of western leaders looks as nonsensical, maybe even worse. At least the Soviet leaders seemed to know what they were saying.
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Michael,
We are often ‘reminded’, yet again, of how small the world is. On Tuesday last, for instance, I needed to alter my schedule, since I felt I should attend a funeral on Wednesday in Newbridge College. So I texted my nephew to say I wouldn’t be able to be present for a launch event in Galway marking his latest book. As I emerged from Heuston Station that lunchtime, whom do I meet? My nephew – about to board a train to Galway for that event! Analogously to ‘small world’ episodes, I suggest that it happens more often than we might imagine likely that the biblical texts laid down for liturgical use on a specific day ‘dance to the same rhythm’ as the news reels we follow on the screen?
Today’s text from Sirach includes this:
‘For there are friends who are such when it suits them,
but they will not stand by you in time of trouble.
And there are friends, who change into enemies,
and tell of the quarrel to your disgrace.’
In my opinion, some of the current group of international political leaders are more obviously selfish than many of their predecessors; and a few of them can’t even demonstrate the shame they ought to feel as a result of their unabashed greed and delight in having power.
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