FRUSTRATION looms large ::::: Anti-Trump catchphrase emerges - "Coming very soon to a cinema near you: Trump #2: How the West Was Lost"

One might have heard the saying - typical of Russians - When the ice is thin you have to walk fast. 

But what happens when one has lost a battle which for wrong notions was perceived to have been 'won' rather easily !!  ??? 

The Left-Liberal camp is still working hard to come to terms with realities. 

Simon Tisdall is the Observer’s Foreign Affairs Commentator. He says in a piece for 'The Guardian' -- 

"Coming very soon to a cinema near you: Trump #2: How the West Was Lost". 

He also writes lucidly -- "To make America great again, Trump is preparing to re-make the world in his vile image, by disrespecting, demoting and diminishing democratic allies (like Britain) and sucking up to the like-minded authoritarian leaders he is most comfortable with". 

Simon also says :  

"Trump’s broad disrespect for human rights, especially women’s and trans rights; his disdain for democratic checks and balances; his unilateral trashing of alliances and treaties (be it Nato or the Paris climate agreement); and his criminal contempt for laws, domestic and international, are behaviours that will be emulated globally.

 Rightwing populists in Latin America, Europe and the UK lap it up. Would-be copycats abound.  

Of course, we have instances wherein - 

The Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán – who had vowed to toast a Trump win with “several bottles of champagne” – hailed what he called “a much-needed victory for the world!”

Argentina’s libertarian president, Javier Milei – a wild-haired former television celebrity who is often compared to Trump – saluted his ally’s “formidable electoral victory”. 

He wrote on X: “Now, Make America Great Again. You know that you can count on Argentina to carry out your task.”

Trump and Javier 

 The former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro claimed Trump’s victory represented “the triumph of the people’s will over the arrogant designs of an elite who disdain our values, beliefs, and traditions”.  

Across the Atlantic, far-right leaders exalted in the success of their movement’s trailblazer. “It is time for patriots. It is time for freedom,” Santiago Abascal, the leader of Spain’s far-right party Vox, wrote on social media. 

Back to what Simon also says:

"Measured in conventional geopolitical terms, gifting Russia’s Vladimir Putin a strategic triumph by imposing a “peace” settlement on Ukraine, as Trump proposes, would undoubtedly set a dire precedent. 

In such a scenario, brute force prevails, the UN charter is shredded, national borders are changed by diktat. Neighbours such as Georgia, Moldova, Estonia, even Poland and Finland, will wonder: who’s next? So, too, will a stricken Nato."

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