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Punch-drunk Europe reels from the Trump offensive

Punch-drunk Europe reels from the Trump offensive
ANDREW MURRAY surveys a quaking continent whose leaders have no idea how to respond to an openly contemptuous United States

BASTARDS. Thus a nameless British official reportedly responded to the dramatic efforts initiated last week by the US government to end the Ukraine war.

The official was referring to the leaders of the USA.

You would need a heart of stone not to laugh, as Oscar Wilde wrote of the death of Little Nell. Sounds like the “special relationship” needs a trip to Relate.

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