Letter
Impeachment and the end of insanity
This article along with many others in P&I and others from informed commentators have demonstrated far more clearly than is necessary that the peace and stability of the whole world are under monumental challenge by the insanity and psychopathy of two individuals and their equally deranged and erratic satraps. Thankfully for human and planetary survival, such a conjunction of unhinged parties in two militarily powerful nations working together to retain a primacy at the expense of humanity, is rare.
But that current conjunction, unlike any other in human history, is occurring in the context of a world where stupidity and mental unbalance threaten the survival of an inhabitable planet. Trump’s demented imaginings and Netanyahu’s desperate attempts to evade the consequences of his criminality, leave humanity in a perilous situation. They have wrapped, as with so many others who have sought world domination, their lusts for untrammeled power, in the garb of religion.
It is no accident that both have arisen from a western, and I hesitate to say “civilisation”, as that civilisation enters its terminal decline. Much of the planet will benefit from that extinction, providing always that these two human excrescences have not destroyed the planet beforehand!!
— Les Macdonald from Balmain NSW 2041