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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
William Keegan

After this, what more proof does Britain need that it can’t ‘cosy up’ to Trump?

Helmut Schmidt and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing talking at a table
Escaping America: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Helmut Schmidt meeting on the 20th anniversary of the initiation of the European monetary system. Photograph: Joerg Sarbach/AP

Alas: that the infantile wrecker in the White House has “blinked” may be some relief; but the damage he is wreaking on his own country and the rest of us persists.

Amid the chaos, conspiracy theories abound. Is Trump a “useful idiot” of even darker forces? What has Putin got on a president who succeeds a long line of (mostly) admirable predecessors, who saw Russian leaders as enemies with whom they had to coexist, not as friends?

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