Trump Cancels UK Visit… So Much For the ‘Special Relationship’

Trump Cancels UK Visit… So Much For the ‘Special Relationship’

Hardly anyone will buy President Donald Trump’s explanation for his abruptly canceled visit to London next month. The real reason, no doubt, was to avoid embarrassing scenes of mass street protests marring his official welcome. Whatever has become of the so-called “special relationship”? Nigel Farage, the former UKIP leader and one of the few British…

Don’t Expect Trump to Send in the Cavalry If MbS Has to Circle Wagons

Don’t Expect Trump to Send in the Cavalry If MbS Has to Circle Wagons

Whether or not he is a purveyor of “alternative facts”, Michael Wolff in Fire and Fury tries to get inside the mind of Donald Trump when working out Washington’s new Middle East foreign policy. In Wolff’s words, this is what the United States president was thinking. “There are basically four players [or at least we can forget…