Earlier Tonight
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Earlier Tonight
I will watch from the bike path.

I have spent rather too much of Sunday pondering upon “what if?” questions. The sense of anxiety that I feel, which I explored in my early-in-the-day post concerning Trump’s threats issued with regard to a Monday deadline, was increased by his utterly intemperate, and frankly mad, expletive-laden post on social media...
“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t
political, I must listen to the birds
and in order to hear the birds
the warplanes must be silent.”
—Marwan Makhoul, Palestinian poet
Diplomatic words of beauty.
French president Emmanuel Macron accused Trump of constantly contradicting himself on the Iran conflict.
"You have to be serious. When you want to be serious, you don't say the opposite every day of what you said the day before. And perhaps you shouldn't talk every day”.
#Politics #EmmanuelMacron #Trump #France
https://www.france24.com/en/macron-says-unrealistic-open-hormuz-strait-force-urges-trump-be-serious

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday said it would be unrealistic to launch a military operation to force open the Strait of Hormuz after US President Donald Trump challenged allies to work towards reopening it. In unusually strong criticism, Macron accused Trump of constantly contradicting himself on the Iran war and of undermining faith in the NATO military alliance.