While the rest of the developed world woke up in a cold sweat on the first official morning of the Trump presidency, the Kremlin said that Russia's Vladimir Putin was ready to meet President Trump but preparations for the possible meeting may take months, not weeks, according to Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
Following yesterday's openly confrontational, deliberately protectionist presidential address by president Trump, which in various circles has been dubbed the "American carnage" speech for obvious reasons, some of Obama's closest foreign friends are scrambling to find a role in a world that has drastically changed in less than 24 hours.
Hundreds of thousands crowds of women, many wearing bright pink knit hats and carrying Starbucks lattes, swamped into downtown Washington, arriving by bus, train and car on Saturday for a march in opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump one day after the Republican took office.
Sometimes we need to take a step back and gain some perspective. As we explain in our book Splitting Pennies - the world isn't always as it seems at first glance. What's happening now, is much a result of what was planned and started 50, 60, and 70 years ago by a previous generation. Modern history and especially regarding USA really should be looked at since @ 1950, at the wind up of World War 2. And, the most significant element in global society, is quite possibly the first form of Artificial Intelligence: The Machine.
President Trump’s brief inaugural speech was a declaration of war against the entirety of the American Ruling Establishment. All of it.