this map must have been drawn up by a Spaniard or Portuguese.
I would never have spelt the irregular verb 'split' as 'splited'.
I'll be a pedant until Trump's bitter end. 😂
The story goes that after Oliver Cromwell had taken the Irish town of Drogheda, he had all its citizens brought to the town square and instructed his lieutenants, "Right! Kill all the women and rape all the men!" One of his aids said, "Excuse me, General, but shouldn't that be the other way around?" A voice from the crowd called out, "Mr Cromwell knows what he's doing!"
Threatening to withdraw from NATO; renaming the Gulf of Mexico, imposing huge tariffs on his own citizens, kidnapping a South American dictator; telling Colombia, Mexico, and Cuba "You're next!", wanting to annex Greenland — does Mr Trump know what he's doing? "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake!" I can hear Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jong Un mutter as they rub their hands with glee.
It seems Mr Trump is drawing up his own "Treaty of Tordesillas" which in 1494 divided the world between the Spanish and the Portuguese by drawing a longitudinal line west of Cape Verde, with everything east of it going to Portugal and everything west to Spain (which is why today Brazil speaks Portuguese while the rest of South America speaks Spanish — stay with me, Sunshine, you're getting a free lesson in history here!)
Mr Trump's "Treaty of Tordesillas" suggests that anything near the United States is free for him to take and to let the rest of the world look after itself. This doesn't look good for Taiwan and Ukraine because if he can invade Venezuela, he can hardly argue if Xi Jinping takes over what has always been a part of China nor censor Putin for invading what has for much of its history been part of the Russian Empire. A new world order?
