Former President of the United States
Born: 14 June 1946
It’s time for the world’s most important election. Of course, it’s the US presidential election. Who will be the next US president, Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. Seen from Western Europe, this is an election about democracy, an election about Western values and an election to avoid an erratic president. Like so many elections…
The two US presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, have finished their first and perhaps last debate before the presidential election. The debate between them was perhaps the only one before the election. The question is how important these debates really are and what will decide the election campaign. The debate Kamala Harris…
Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt. The perpetrator is dead. Dead is also an innocent person that the assassin’s bullet hit. The assassination of Trump is far more than an attack on a person. It’s an attack on American democracy as a whole, not on a single person. The US has a long and…
Donald Trump was found guilty on all counts in the so-called hush money case. The trial, which has lasted several weeks, has revolved around whether Trump paid porn actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election and falsified the accounts to conceal money transfers. A presidential candidate with a prison sentence The sentencing has not…
According to the Washington Post, Trump wants to pressure Ukraine to give up the Crimean peninsula and Donbas. He has previously said that he could end the war in one day if he were president. Trump’s plan is a terrible deal for Ukraine, says Emma Ashford of the Stimson Center think tank. Giving away…
Recently, Trump caused great concern when he said that some NATO countries that pay too little for defense cannot count on help from the US. The question is actually how much the US itself contributes. To calculate this, I have looked at what some NATO countries spend on defense in terms of Gross National…