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‘In Trump we Truss’: Sometimes, only a US diplomat, or three, can say it all

2 weeks ago | rashmee.com | Rashmee Roshan Lall

Sometimes, it takes a diplomat to be rude in the politest way possible. When it’s a trade war, it may take three diplomats. Or three former US diplomats if they’re talking Trump’s America. John Fowler, Helen Zhang and Jeremy Dicker, who write the incredibly sharp newsletter International Intrigue, sent out today’s take with the following headline: “In Trump we Truss”. That four-word takedown of America’s president said it all. It summed up:The hubris. The ignorance. The arrogance.
Trade war and peace

2 weeks ago | rashmee.medium.com | Rashmee Roshan Lall

Two books and four bite-sized pieces flavoured with this momentRashmee Roshan Lall·Follow2 min read·--This Week, Those Books was created to provide context to the news by linking the big international story to the world of books and we now have nearly 11,000 followers in 120 countries on the Substack app. If you find This Week, Those Books useful, thoughtful, and…a conversation starter, please consider supporting us (to buy books 📚📚 and put in time) by becoming a paying subscriber.
What’s a ‘panican’? Dr Trump’s view of non-MAGA state of being?

2 weeks ago | rashmee.com | Rashmee Roshan Lall

Donald Trump is hard at work re-making the English language. Not content with gutting parts of the US government and its settled system (not least USAID, the Forest Service and a contract with the non-profit Acacia Center for Justice that funds legal aid groups representing 26,000 unaccompanied immigrant minors), Mr Trump is busy coining words. On Monday (April 7), the US president pushed back on criticism over his mass tariffs regime, calling on Americans to be patient and not be a “panican”.
A jumble of chants at London’s ‘Hands Off’ protest

2 weeks ago | rashmee.com | Rashmee Roshan Lall

On Satuday, April 5, some 1,300 protests took place in cities across all 50 states of America as well as in some other countries. Britain was one of them. A few hundred people gathered in Trafalgar Square in London to express their horror at Donald Trump’s grand and ugly dismantling of the system and order of US government, of international relationships and diplomatic alliances. I was one of those people and I noticed a problem with the protest in terms of its chants.
Interesting.

2 weeks ago | rashmee.medium.com | Rashmee Roshan Lall

Interesting. Thanks for reading, That piece was written in 2018 and I'm not sure if the situation has improved in the years since.
Myanmar’s junta seems to feel nothing for its people…not even pity

2 weeks ago | rashmee.medium.com | Rashmee Roshan Lall

Rashmee Roshan Lall·Follow2 min read·--Yangon in a time that was marginally less fraught. Photo by Anika De Klerk on UnsplashHard not to be moved by a plea for Myanmar’s military junta to take the suffering of its harried, earthquake-devastated people to heart and end the long-running conflict with ordinary citizens. Bloomberg columnist Ruth Pollard wrote as follows: “There is precedence for a natural disaster helping to end a long-running conflict.
Myanmar’s junta seems to feel nothing for its people…not even pity

2 weeks ago | rashmee.com | Rashmee Roshan Lall

Hard not to be moved by a plea for Myanmar’s military junta to take the suffering of its harried, earthquake-devastated people to heart and end the long-running conflict with ordinary citizens. Bloomberg columnist Ruth Pollard wrote as follows: “There is precedence for a natural disaster helping to end a long-running conflict.
‘Unlike the 1940 Ford, Tesla is here just for today’

3 weeks ago | rashmee.com | Rashmee Roshan Lall

A British enthusiast of American old cars recently offered some perspective on how the world changes and the bits that remain the same. Simple is best. Reliable is durable. See you in 85 years. Vaughan pointed at his 1940 Ford and proudly announced: “That’s 85 years old. There’s no chance a Tesla will be standing here 85 years on.
What’s the deal with Trump’s tariffs?

3 weeks ago | rashmee.medium.com | Rashmee Roshan Lall

The US last did this in 1930 and it didn't work. And a novel on the British experience
America’s soft power is felt even in Oxleas Woods

3 weeks ago | rashmee.medium.com | Rashmee Roshan Lall

Rashmee Roshan Lall·Follow2 min read·--America’s purchase on the imagination of the world is such that you can’t even take the dog for a Sunday run in the woods without colliding with some manifestation of US soft power. On March 27, it was old American cars. And the Detonators’ monthly breakfast at Oxleas Woods on the southeast edge of the British capital.