Alliances | Blogotariat

On Substack, which I frequent daily, a German-American writer, cartoonist and commentator, who goes by the name of Oliver Markus Malloy1, is one person whose posts I read fairly regularly.

A couple of days ago, he posted on Substack, the following: “Question for all Non-Americans: What do you think about Trump’s America?” To this, I replied: “It is buggered. Even if the Trump regime is deposed by the armed forces tomorrow, the damage to the US; its institutions, its science, its medicine, its soft power, will take decades to repair, if indeed that is possible.”

It was all I could think of at the time, but one thing I omitted was ‘its alliances’. Now, however, it seems that some of those in the Republican Party are starting to realise these alliances are much more important than the Mango Paedo would have you believe. This was brought into very sharp focus by several Republicans, including the old age mutant turtle, Mitch McConnell. His comment was in response to the EU’s joint statement committing to work on Arctic security. This, of course was only a short time after the Trump administration reiterated its drivel about taking over Greenland. This response was unlike the retort expected by the halfwits in the White House, in that it outflanked them. The expected response would have been outrage, escalations and threats. After this European move, several Republicans in the Senate, publicly panned the Greenland takeover idea, rejecting it outright. McConnell himself opened his statement with: “Arctic security matters. So does the strength of our alliances. These interests are not in conflict. They are inseparably linked”2.

McConnell is no longer Republican senate leader, having relinquished the role in 2024 (he is 84), not long before he stupidly endorsed Trump as the Republican candidate for the presidency3.

He is blamed by many for his lack of fortitude in allowing the Republican Party to be taken over by Trump. For a few weeks in January and February 2021, McConnell held a unique power to stop Trump, once and for all. That was the brief time when McConnell considered voting to convict Trump on an impeachment charge relating to his role in the January 6 insurrection. Had he done so, and had he used his ability to corral the nine additional Republicans necessary to convict the Mango Paedo, the latter could have been constitutionally barred from ever again holding “any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States”4.

While McConnell’s and others’ statements may have put paid to the Greenland folly, the important thing is that they realise alliances are vital in the modern world, which is why malevolent bastards like Putin try to rip them asunder at every opportunity.

Had McConnell voted to convict Trump, it would likely mean the US would not have been turned into such a shithole country, where spivs and conmen run the government, the Gestapo roams the streets abducting and shooting people, where science is in decline, where diseases preventable by vaccination are on the rise, and which fewer people want to visit.

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