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I don't think it mattered for the Ukraine who won the American election. For the same reason it doesn't matter for anyone in the Middle East either for that matter.
American politicians say this and that about international conflicts, but the words are meaningless. The positions they'll take are best illustrated by ceasefire vetoes. For them, wars are about cash. Whatever helps them to push more weapons tells you what they'll do next.
Abandon Ukraine means no cash. Help Ukraine prevail over Russia to the point that Putin is finished means no cash. Broker a peace deal means no cash.
There'll be political speak about Israel too, but the weapons flow will continue. Unless the people of Palestine completely roll over. Then steps will need to be taken to help them rebuild. So that they can strike against Israel again in the not too distant future, and open those markets once more.
Why does the US Congress act like this? Let alone the tax take from the weapons industry, does anyone want to hazard a guess at how many members of the Congress hold shares in weapons companies? You probably don't need to guess actually; Google has a fair idea.
This whole Trump thing is kind of dumb when it comes to wars. If he died in his sleep we'd have Vance. If he'd lost we'd have Harris. And still the weapons would flow. And although it's easy to point the finger at the US as a nation, it's not even about them. Like so many countries, they love cash. At the expense of everybody else, including their own citizenry. The particular cash cow the US is good at milking just happens to be weapons.
Ukraine won't be fine. They'll be addicted to the need for just enough US weapons to defend themselves for as long as possible. But they won't be abandoned either.
This fully took me back to 1982 and The World According to Garp, with the Ellen Jamesians.
When you think how this sort of thing was satirized in America like that over forty years ago, it illustrates quite well how far humanity has regressed since then.
Can you sell the players you're planning to offload anyway for massively inflated fees?
I'm thinking about the American owners flogging off such players to their other club, just to give more leeway to Ipswich. Or are such shenanigans highly frowned upon, and outright prevented?
Haven't been to LA for years and years, so this probably won't be much use.
I do remember quite enjoying strolling along Venice Beach. Loads of stalls and performers there. These Caribbean drum guys were mesmerising, and there was this Echo Man guy, who we couldn't stop listening to. I doubt he's still about though.
If you like music, we went to this place called The Doll Hut which was pretty cool. Although this was back in 1991, I think it's still going. The woman who ran it showed us her photo albums (they were a thing back then) and she was very proud of a pic she had of her and John Entwistle.
She even explained to us who John Entwistle was, which caused my friend to give her an impression of Den from More Bad News. But she didn't get it. I laughed though.
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