The war goes on. The biggest democracy, now in the grip of a deranged corrupt plutocrat, is attempting to overthrow a corrupt deranged theocracy. That is a most unedifying spectacle at best and a global tragedy in reality. Trump is now putting as they said in Vietnam "boots on the ground" and that curiously may prove to be his undoing. The Americans if again in receipt of body bags filled with former soldiers then may decide such action is unwelcome either against Iran or in support of any of the squad of corrupt gulf Arab States which are marginally the victims but enthusiastically the proponents of this outrageous enterprise. The UK has taken a reasonable center path supporting and failing to support as appropriate. The prime minister is an unimpressive figure overall but is behaving impeccably at the moment despite urging us in various directions which are understandable if not always worthy of adopting. The corruption at the heart of Trump's enterprise and his quotidian dusdsunf for the military may yet provoke a response. Many years ago there was a movie Seven Days in May https://share.google/hgz8ish59hECfXXh2 showing an attempted military coup against a liberal president. May is coming soon and a military coup against Trump would be highly original. Innovative even. Scriptwriters at the ready.
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Sunday, 15 March 2026
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Anniversaries Read it.
By Literature/Novels/Uwe Johnson.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/10/15/on-uwe-johnson-poet-of-both-germanys/
An East German who live in the west both in US and latterly UK. Died aged about 50. He was the same age as his most noted creation Gesine Cresspahl who was born in 1933 and is in 1967-8 the central character of his masterpiece "Anniversaries".
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/books/review-anniversaries-uwe-johnson.html
The epic novel plays out from 1st August 1967 to 31st July 1968 in 365 daily episodes. Most allude to contemporary events in US and and often VietNam. Each episode contains part of Gesine's life story from her youth in Germany until the present with her living in the upper west side of Manhattan, but also much of the lives of her parents and their families.
