Is it too early to ask what a second term President Trump do about the increased chaos in the Middle east? I think it is but not by much. Over the next few months the United States of America will slowly pull itself apart over the former President. The vortex from this will drag all of us much closer to the edge. 

I suspect few Americans understand just what an affect they are having on the world beyond their borders, after all it is fair for them to argue that this an American presidential election and so the rest of the world doesn’t count. I wish that were so or that any form of isolationism would work – it won’t – just look at the land border with Mexico as to why the USA can’ seal itself off from the rest of us. All that will happen is that the relative calming effect that the the USA has on the world order will diminish to everyone’s loss.

Whatever the next 12 months brings it isn’t going to be pretty.