By Victor Grossman\People’s World
Photos: YouTube Screenshot\Wikimedia Commons
BERLIN—Warmakers like Trump in Washington and Merz in Berlin are in charge of their respective governments, causing heightened worry around the world about the dark clouds of war.
This is not to say there aren’t bright spots on both sides of the Atlantic, like the victory of Zohran Mamdani in New York, my hometown, where an amazingly courageous, even defiant platform, is causing the wealthy spenders to move heaven and earth to stop him.
Far bigger geographically, more than five million Americans marked “No Kings Day”—Trump’s birthday—in over 2,100 cities and towns, even in Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
Resistance is urgent against Trump’s frightening domestic plans. His foreign policy also is dangerous and unpredictable; I‘d bet he personally hasn’t a clue about the outside world, hardly knows Liberia from Siberia, except where golden Trump towers or golf courses are involved or fat contracts for the family. Dangerous elements around him, however, know exactly what they are doing. Trump’s actions include crazy, merry-go-round tariff plans, criminally illegal air raids, the murder of undesirable generals, and brutal genocide in Gaza.
Have you noticed? Many who condemn Trump’s dangerous plans talk less about what he intends to do in the Ukraine war. With some folks, I suspect that the main worry for many in Germany is that some peaceful solution might indeed be found, and words like war-readiness, security-defense, or armament-buildup give way in media headlines to reconciliation or rapprochement. How fearful!
In Germany, when it comes to war preparations, I hear too many echoes from the past! For those pushing German expansion, some with the same bloody corporate names as…READ MORE…
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