What alarms me the most is that there is probably a huge number of Americans that are proud of their leader for "showing strength".

I made a point of logging in (under a fake identity) to X yesterday simply to tell him that he's a disgrace and his behavior was bad for America.  The long series of suck up praise posts that preceded mine was staggering.  They felt he's put Ukraine in its place and how dare Zelensky show up not wearing a suit.  Jesus wept.

I cannot understand where a VICE president chastises a PRESIDENT and think its ok.
You just couldnt write this stuff for TV.

I await with bated breath for the next instalment

Spoiler (hover to show)

If Zelensky's plane suddenly has a fault crashes   

Oh, contraire.  The whole debacle played like a bad rerun of The Apprentice.  What Trump knows about running a company or a government he learned from acting like a competent businessman on tv.  That's the only place he came across as one, since he is known for his string of failed business ventures.  Sad to say, we are stuck with this failed Reality TV star to screw up the global geopolitical order.

I cannot understand where a VICE president chastises a PRESIDENT and think its ok.
You just couldnt write this stuff for TV.

I await with bated breath for the next instalment

Spoiler (hover to show)

If Zelensky's plane suddenly has a fault crashes   

Bullies bully the weak: we aren't particularly strong - our leaders will align with whatever they think will hurt least.

The problem with "the U.K's stance on Ukraine" is that we aren't strong enough to have one of our own. In truth the rest of the western world's stance on everything for seventy or so years has been "whatever America wants, and let's hope they are nice to us". What we really want is for Ukraine to kick the poo out of Russia and send them back to where they came from, but we aren't even close to being strong enough to help them do that. (... and probably nor are America, noting their previous adventures in Asia)

So True.

After watching the news ref Trump and Zelensky bust up, Now Spain has support declared for Ukraine
 
best TV I have watched for ages.

Yes but now the U.K look like hillbillys for buddying up to Trump and his minions.