Trump's decisive power play makes world a safer place

RECENT poll revealed that Germans, French and Britons consider Donald Trump a stronger and more decisive leader than their own heads of state by 74%, 73% and 69% respectively.

- Tim Newark

Federal agents take captured Maduro, 2nd left, to a court in New York this week

Without doubt, the US president has set the international pace in the Middle East and Ukraine and is now securing his country against rogue narco-states.Keir Starmer and his French buddy Emmanuel Macron are great ones for so-called rules-based world order, as it means lots of international travel and photo ops. It makes them feel important but achieves little. Have international laws stopped fighting in the Middle East or Ukraine? Have they stopped aggression backed by Iran, China and Russia?

The reason no one pays attention to Britain, France or Germany any more is that they are weak. Their economies are faltering and they are reluctant to project military and political hard power around the world. Trump understands that and is doing everything he can to build US economic might and deploy his weapons abroad.

US-combined arms managed to neutralise Russian-supplied defence systems to extract outlaw dictator Nicolas Maduro. The photo of him manacled and blindfolded must be sending shivers throughout the palaces of the world’s tyrants.