World View

Not being a believer myself, I take only a limited interest in the doings of priests, imams and rabbis, but I did stumble into a situation involving the late Pope Francis at a crucial point in his early career.

The dictionary defines a horse whisperer as "someone who is skilled at training horses using gentle, non-violent methods based on understanding horse behaviour and psychology."

Not only did Trump blink first, but he blinked at exactly the right time.

In 10 whirlwind weeks Donald Trump had already smashed the international system of rules and alliances that more or less kept the peace for the past 80 years, but his bizarre "tariffs on everybody" policy has given us a glimpse of what may take its place.

The "third wave" of nuclear weapons countries is beginning, and it will be at least as dangerous as the previous waves.

"We need to wake up from a failed, 40-year consensus that said we could ignore the encroachment of powerful countries as they expand their ambitions," US Vice-President JD Vance said during his brief visit to the US military base at Pituffik in northern Greenland.

Maybe it was the fact that we were coming up to the 10th anniversary of the treaty Donald Trump destroyed that prompted him to start issuing threats to Iran again.

"Joseph Kabila boycotted the election and is preparing an insurrection because he is the AFC," President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo said last October.

Last Tuesday there was a vote in the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament, that may have changed the course of history.

Most crimes everywhere have always gone unpunished.