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As a Member of Parliament (1990–1994), I used to donate one third of my salary to support social institutions and people in distress (with the request that this not be publicized).

I say this because of an analogy that has been stuck in my mind these days—sadly and painfully.

Once, back then, I visited a facility that cared for mentally ill human beings—traditionally, yet heartlessly, referred to as a madhouse.

I noticed a patient standing in the middle of a large room, making faces, reciting something, gesturing, hopping, jogging in place, crouching.

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For me (and clearly not just for me), the fact that the U.S. has a totally unhinged idiot as its president is incredibly dangerous for the world.
But it’s even more dangerous for Trump himself.

Trump is surrounded by absolute mediocrities, sycophants, cynics, illiterates, and crooks who only tell him what he wants to hear and show him what he wants to see. This way, Trump lives in a make-believe world, and anything he learns that doesn’t suit him, he instinctively and impulsively rejects.

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“A smaller sailboat may spin around in the water, but it may rise up again after a few turns, but if the Titanic is going to sink, it will sink.”
—Xi Jinping

Everything—absolutely everything—that Trump does is wrong. Dangerously wrong. And probably—fatal.
Under his leadership, the United States is like the Titanic. And as comrade Xi says: once the Titanic starts sinking, it sinks.

The attempts to find some kind of strategy in Trump’s actions are not just comical—they are downright pathetic.
Trump is a threat to the very existence of the United States. The U.S. can (still) escape from Trump’s madness, but the price will be colossal.

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A Ukrainian analyst recently said almost exactly what I’ve been arguing myself — that Russian opposition figures suffer from the so-called “Navalny syndrome.”
I personally call it the “Navalny complex.”

Among them, there are courageous individuals — some have even gone through prison and even labor camps.
Most of them are based in the West, primarily in Europe, and are constantly striving for funding, boldly puffing their chests in front of Euro-Atlantic institutions and bravely fighting from the comfort of their couches and in podcasts.

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I’ve heard it already in two different podcasts—two prominent economists compared the escalating tariff standoff between Trump and Xi to a game of *Chicken*.
The title of that game can also be translated as: “Who’s the coward?”

The term “chicken” in English has the double meaning of a farm bird and a person who lacks courage. So the game "Chicken" is literally a game of cowardice, a test of nerves, a reckless race to see who swerves first.