USA was a fireball waiting to explode
Well, what can one say about the land of the free and the brave?
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WELL, what can one say about the land of the free and the brave?
The world is in the middle of a viral disaster and we have a president accusing the People’s Republic of China of human rights abuses and totalitarian excesses.
Then America is set alight by the brutal death of George Floyd!
The people are shocked, enraged and storming the streets. American leaders call out the National Guard, like a Tiananmen Square response?
Yet Keith Whiteside in ‘Chinese must be laughing at the US’ (Daily, June 1) suggests Australia should marshall its defence forces by arming itself with nuclear weapons in the light of our weakened and demoralised big brother Uncle Sam.
It has been obvious from the American election result of 2016 when Democrat Hilary Clinton won the majority of votes against Donald Trump who secured the majority of the (inequitable) electoral college that the great nation of the United States was a fireball waiting to explode.
The fermenting mix of skin colour prejudice (race is a misnomer), the social restrictions of COVID-19, the massive national economic inequity, and the failed humanitarian leadership of Trump all converge.
The simple task of docking two Americans onto the International Space Station is an irrelevancy paling against gross national fissures of earth-grounded, characterological weaknesses.
MICHAEL HENDERSON, Maroochydore
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