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A Letter From America

The Wolves Are Out

If you’ve been watching the news from the United States and wondering if the Americans have finally, irrevocably, lost the plot … we have.

You see the headlines about ICE agents murdering American citizens in the streets, the ludicrous Greenland gambit, and the hostile takeover of Venezuela, to say nothing of the usual Trumpian Sturm und Drang – and you’re looking for a rational explanation.

After a decade trapped inside the reality-distortion field imposed on the world by Donald Trump, I urge you to abandon the search for comforting logic. There is no ‘policy’ here beyond the raw will to power, served with a side of state-sponsored gaslighting, and a chilling lack of basic human decency.

We are living through an American Winter, and the wolves are out.

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