Anthony Barnett’s

Notes On Now

Beating Trump

Here is the good news: Trump is going to lose.

When his Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, told CNN that the UScan take Greenland, because the “iron laws of the world since the beginning of time” are that it is controlled by strength, force, and power, he was not just wrong, he exposed a complete absence of any values or beliefs. Such hollowness isn’t popular and won’t triumph.

An immediate consequence for us inEurope is that we must build our own internet providers. For Trump has, in effect, weaponised the Americancompanies that control our access to cyberspace.

Thanks to journalist Carole Cadwalladr, I learned about the consequences for Nicolas Guillou, a judge on the International Criminal Court, which approved an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for crimes committed in Gaza. Now, he is ‘sanctioned’ by the United States for doing his public duty, as if he is a suspected terrorist or money launderer.