A far-right empire: Trump’s America is Europe’s new enemy
The meaning of the US betrayal of Ukraine
Guernica, 1937, by Pablo Picasso, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid.
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American commentators had a crassly comforting saying during Donald Trump’s first term. They told us to take him “seriously but not literally” – as if it were still possible to discuss modern America with a hint of post-modern irony.
Really? In the past week, Trump has stopped all military aid to Ukraine. He has literally stopped arms reaching a country under attack from an imperialist dictatorship.
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