Letter

In response to Keating says Trump’s tariffs mean death knell for NATO and ANZUS

Has the world gone mad?

Paul Keating is right to question thevalidity of any treaty with the US. There’s every indication that America, socially and economically, is now in the grip of a pirate gang of fanatics hellbent on assaulting any order that sits outside their credulous world image and shown they’ll plundering what they can from whomever they can, even their fellow Americans, in total disregard of the consequences. The evidence is clear.

Scattergun targeted tariffs have overturned the global economic barrow. Internal descent has been punished financially and government functionality dismantled. Trumpian puppeteers have control of social media, and the constitutionally authorised judiciary is disregarded and threatened. Most alarmingly,action on the climate threat has been abandoned.

As fantastical as it sounds, but considering the above, should Trump join Xi and Putin as presidents for life, how far away is America from becoming an autocratic theocracy, and is that what most people living in American want? If not, how can they overthrow the regime?

The most important question of all, is how does what’s left of the free world establish contact to support them before the portcullis comes down on Citadel America?

It won’t come to that? Check your history books.

John Mosig from Melbourne