Military idiot and bar

As I mentioned, I was conned into renewing my Daily Telegraph subscription but hardly read it because it's such disgraceful propaganda for the British, US and Israeli defence establishment (it seems to be almost one establishment these days).

I think of Hamish de Bretton-Gordon as possibly the most stupid writer the paper has, excepting Colonel Richard Kemp, and I could drive a coach and horses every day through his absurdities could I bring myself to read them. 

But today's idiocy is worrying.

"Operation Absolute Resolve, the US government’s audacious seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, is a stark reminder of the extraordinary, unique military power available to President Trump when he chooses to use it. Every dictator, despot and rogue regime will have taken note: no tyrant is beyond reach if the US decides to act."

He relishes the forthcoming overthrow of the Iranian government and hopes other autocrats will be toppled. 

In other words international law does not figure in his outlook and nor, I presume, does it in the outlook of the MoD or MI6. 

Iraq has been forgotten. 

Afghanistan and Libya too.

Labour MPs who want the PM to condemn the attack the Telegraph calls 'Maduro apologists'. The enemy within, by implication.

I recently read an Irishman of centre-left politics saying Donald Trump SHOULD annex Greenland. 

The useful idiots who write the Telegraph editorials may come round to that in time, for fear Greenland might be a gap in Nato defences, even though Denmark is in Nato and what threat is there to America in the Arctic or anywhere else?

Rory Stewart, the former Tory MP, is exactly the romantic, dashing, socially concerned, leftish Tory I loved and thought I was in the 1980s. Now his views are the antithesis of mine on everything - until today that is, when he said Europe must “wake up to the threat posed by the US”. I bet Nigel Farage doesn't say that.