Alarming episode
- Last updated: January 4, 2026 | 19:46 ..
Venezuelans protest against the results of the country’s July 2024 presidential election, in Caracas. Reuters
How desperate is Donald Trump for another distraction from the Epstein files? Invading a foreign country, kidnapping its leader and his wife and risking yet another war seems a serious misstep.
Intending to solve two wars the day he started working and spending months achieving little progress, claiming to have stopped eight wars although this is not substantiated, and now risking starting another war might explain why there is a Department of War rather than a Department of Defence.
Conflicts must be solved, not bombed into oblivion, along with their citizens. Which country will be next?
Dennis Fitzgerald,
Melbourne, Australia