Not All Fellow Travellers Go the Distance

Faced with the Trumpster administration's apparent willingness to start a war within NATO, a handful of Republican senators have had sudden attacks of scruple, in some cases not even coincidentally with their impending retirement from the wreckage they helped to complete. One dissenter went so far as to compare the Trumpster unfavourably with President Biden, proclaiming that a military attack on the white people of Denmark would be even worse than cutting short the war against the brown people of Afghanistan. Another suggested optimistically that annexing Greenland would do what domestic criminality could not, and bring about an end to the Trumpster's presidency; though whether a Vance presidency would constitute a significant improvement remains as yet unclear. Still, in straitened times one must take what one can get; and although the Trumpster and his head-tribble have yet to meet their Stauffenberg or Zhukov, a bit of whining among the Schachts and Papens may at least be a start.