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Dan Beach's avatar

His destruction of the East Wing was total, and fast. It was symbolic of everything he does. Just destroy everything. A bull in a china shop, with a brain tumor, on speed. I'm surprised that he didn't collect pieces of it to merchandise. Actually, he probably has.

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Is it indifference? Looking at it from the UK, I would say it’s an unpreparedness for having to deal with anything seriously upsetting your by and large comfortable lives. Americans have been considered arrogant - you have the biggest and best everything. I have family in America and when I was able I would visit frequently and sit on the plane listening to American’s derogatory comments about my country. Petty stuff mostly e.g. small washing machines; no jug of iced water on the table; no ice in general. Plenty of ICE now though. Sorry that’s a mean joke and I don’t in any way intend to be mean. I’m trying to get across my view that the average American has never considered that anything awful could happen. They don’t believe it and haven’t a clue what to do about it. You have never had to prepare for invasion, even the folk my sort of age didn’t grow up familiar with Anderson shelters in the garden converted to sheds. I was born in Dover and played on the cliffs in and out of the pill boxes collecting old shell casings, clambering on an abandoned cannon. American’s have no sense of that kind of threat. This is why Ukraine matters to us in Europe the Russian threat never goes away.

So Michael you diagnose the situation but what’s the solution? who needs to do what, when, where and how?

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