Donald Trump brokered peace deals and avoided war but he also epitomised what’s wrong with West

A letter from Howard Hutchins:
By Howard Hutchins
Published 20th Jan 2021, 12:45 BST
Days before the end of his presidency, Donald Trump walks by supporters outside the White House on January 12, 2021 in Washington,DC ahead of a visit to Alamo, Texas to inspect his border wallDays before the end of his presidency, Donald Trump walks by supporters outside the White House on January 12, 2021 in Washington,DC ahead of a visit to Alamo, Texas to inspect his border wall
Days before the end of his presidency, Donald Trump walks by supporters outside the White House on January 12, 2021 in Washington,DC ahead of a visit to Alamo, Texas to inspect his border wall

I have always been appalled by Donald Trump the man, and even more so now.

However, I now feel no shame in making the following points:

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For some 15 years now, those caring for world peace have, with great trepidation, watched as the decline of democracy in Nato-partner Turkey (the great Mustafa Kemal, Ataturk, must be turning in his grave) has accelerated.

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This, along with Turkey’s rapid lurch towards fundamentalist Islamic feudalism, is terrifying.

The preceding, accompanied by Communist Red China’s imploding internal financial situation, along with China’s rising militarism and ‘heavily muscled’ commercial colonisation of many African, South American and other countries (including Australia’s port of Darwin) has many ominous parallels with Japan’s imperialistic behaviour leading up to World War Two.

Now Russia, led by an ailing ex-KGB officer in Putin, is militarily putting its oar in the water, aligning with Red China!

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Trump (to his credit) has never initiated any new conflict. However, I had hoped he would strengthen the US financially, and militarily, to protect the free world.

Trump has brokered multiple peace accords throughout the Middle East, with even President Erdogan of Turkey (as narcissistic and low-life as Trump) is now (probably disingenuously) wanting to cuddle up to Israel again ...after a big shove by Trump?

Donald Trump curtailed both Iran’s and North Korea’s nuclear activities.

Now, President Biden will do an Obama (financially rewarding Iran’s mad mullahs) and let the Iranians, and North Koreans again, threaten Israel, and world peace big time.

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And the Biden/Harris (and the Democrat Party’s ultra-leftist, and anti-western factions) New Green Deal will simply batter Western economies in into a serious recession (with no effect on Mother Nature’s climate).

They will condemn the world’s poorest to even greater suffering/disadvantage and further strengthen the hands of the truly despotic: China’s Communist Party, Iran, North Korea and Russia!

Yet on the other hand, sadly, Donald Trump epitomises all that’s gone/is wrong with today’s Western World.

Howard Hutchins, Victoria, Australia

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