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For 80 years the US has been the linchpin of the Western alliance. Now in a matter of weeks it has done an 180 degree turn and seems to want to ally itself with Russia rather than against it.

Were I an Israeli politician, I'd be saying to myself: if the US can do this to long-standing allies, if it can betray a country invaded by those wanting to obliterate its existence, my country can't be certain it won't do the same to us too, one day. And from that realisation policies will flow, policies many of us will not like at all.

The US can no longer be trusted.

It is interesting. I think many of us have said before that no country can or should be trusted. There are no friends, only mutual vested interests.

What has changed is that the current dickhead in charge in the US has no idea what the best interests of his country are, nor does he care.

He is compared to many people - Hitler, Mussolini, the Tango Man who jumps up and slaps you - but actually he models himself on Louis XIV. The man who apparently claimed 'L'État, c'est moi'. Trump believes this and therefore believes that anything that advances himself and his ego does the same for his country.

We have had many decades of 1st world countries including and especially the US acting in self serving ways which also help the rest of us. The US has stopped serving itself and started serving the Great Orange Loon.