It’s a bit of a long read, but if you have time, I think anyone concerned about geopolitics and what is going on in America needs to read this excellent Guardian article. It paints a shocking, vivid picture of Donald Trump: a shallow, petty narcissist, essentially owned by Vladimir Putin, who doesn’t give a damn about anything but his own self-aggrandisement. “Loyalty must be blind. Obedience is safety. Cronyism secures status. His whim is dogma. Criticism is heresy. Debate is apostasy. Expertise is bias. Objectivity is a hoax. Truth is just your opinion. Lies are defended to the death as articles of faith. New ones are manufactured on an industrial scale by his press office for social influencers to spread. Denying facts proves fealty.”

Even today, as delegates gather in Saudi Arabia to try to negotiate a peace deal in Ukraine, it is gut-churningly obvious that Trump is eager to end this war not because lives will be spared or Ukrainians will retain their autonomy, but because he’ll be able to claim the credit, achieving something Biden did not. It is widely known that Trump has his egotistical eyes on a Nobel Peace Prize, and is willing to go to any lengths to win one, even selling out an autonomous nation to it’s dictatorial, autocratic neighbour. I will not try to summarise the shocking article any further, other than to say it leaves readers with two questions: how on earth did we get into this mess? and how the fuck do we get out of it?