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Has Trump Crossed a Line with Brits? Even Prince Harry said "sacrifices deserve to be spoken about truthfully and with respect”. Anthony Davis 🎙️ Jan 24 ∙ Guest post Guest article by British journalist  Anthony Davis Donald Trump’s latest unhinged verbal attack, this time against NATO allies, was not just another bout of rhetorical carelessness. It was a deliberate insult aimed at countries that bled alongside the United States for two decades—and it landed with particular force in the UK, where memories of Afghanistan are not abstract talking points but graves, amputations, and lifelong trauma—and where the US ‘Special Relationship’ still means something. When Trump told Fox News that the US had “never needed” NATO and suggested that European forces stayed “a little off the front lines” in Afghanistan, he crossed a line that even normally cautious allies could not ignore. British prime minister Keir Starmer, who has spent months carefully avoiding public confrontation with Trump...

  Meidas Humiliates Donald… Shrinkage Goes Global Ben Meiselas and MeidasTouch Network Jan 23   Written by Ben Meiselas I told you it would get embarrassing, Donald. You didn’t listen. And now the entire world is laughing at you. Your humiliating trip to Davos was supposed to be your big “statesman” moment at the World Economic Forum. Instead, it turned into a global intervention. World leaders openly mocked you. Business leaders rolled their eyes. Allies distanced themselves. Even authoritarians barely pretended to take you seriously. Trump has never looked smaller. Never weaker. Never more exposed. You flew halfway around the world just to get humiliated in public. And then came the desperation. You announced your so-called “Board of Peace,” a group so unserious it became an instant punchline. No democracies. No NATO allies. Just you, Vladimir Putin, Alexander Lukashenko, and whatever other strongmen still return your calls. Then, in a moment that will live in i...

  Today in Politics, Bulletin 290. 1/20/26 Ron Filipkowski Jan 20 ∙ … Sky News’  Beth Rigby : “Trump detonated a series of bombshells on Truth Social overnight: leaking private messages from  President Macron , posting image of Canada and Greenland as part of the US, and going all out on PM  Keir Starmer  and UK by calling the Chagos deal an ‘act of great stupidity’.” … “Been speaking around govt this morning to get a sense of what the hell is going on after the PM yesterday sought to reiterate the UK’s position on Greenland while also trying to de-escalate, stressing the strong relationship, dodging the matter of retaliatory tariffs (although not ruling it out) and avoiding any incendiary language adopted by other leaders clearly fed up with Trump.” … “But the lashing out against the UK and Starmer seems to be part of a bigger assault on allies - as Trump reveals private messages with Macron and shares a map of Canada as US territory, which will no doubt explod...