It’s a big week for western defence powers, but is the US listening to any of its allies anymore?

Seems like everyone’s got multiple jobs these days, even world leaders.

How could someone spend nearly four decades in the Army, but for so much of that time have to hide who they really were?

This is a confrontation Trump, and those around him, have been itching for since January. A fabricated crisis that becomes a pretext to militarise against an “enemy within.”

Politicians — on all sides — are terrified of saying sorry. Give in once, they reason, and you’ll never stop being pestered to make more concessions.