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To quote Barack Obama at his most glib, the 1980s are calling to ask for their foreign policy back.
Tensions have hit Cold War levels in Eastern Europe after Poland threatened to shoot down any more encroaching Russian aircraft. Strange drones — possibly Moscow’s — are zipping around over Scandinavia.
Fears are growing of an intifada-style eruption on the West Bank if Israel follows through on hints of annexation to add to its onslaught on Gaza.
And here in the US, inflation is threatening a comeback.
Yet President Donald Trump, who holds the job once reserved for the leader for the free world, had no words of reassurance or poetic invocations of democratic values for America’s alarmed allies in an address to the UN General Assembly in which he, as usual, gave most of the world’s tyrants a pass.
“I’m really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell,” he told them.
Trump also devoted his speech, which rambled well past time limits and left the red light futilely blinking, powerless against his venting, to what he appears to think are more important priorities.
► He bitterly complained an escalator at UN headquarters stopped while he was on it and revived an old gripe that the world body had refused his offer to fix up its aged Turtle Bay b
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