Everybody take a Valium

As Donald Trump’s inauguration looms, there is great panic among American commentators and strategic analysts (and quite a lot of people elsewhere) about the grave danger that the ignorant and impulsive Trump will pose to world peace, but this ignores two important facts.

Donald Trump pictured campaigning in the U.S. presidential election in 2016. Photograph courtesy of Matthew McBain/Devin Dreeshen

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

January 17, 2017

LONDON, ENGLAND—When Napoleon invaded Russia in 1812, he took more than half a million troops with him, and he still lost. When Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, he used four million troops, but he lost too. And now the United States has deployed just 1,000 American into Poland. So did th...

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