Trump is busy building Hell on Earth. Surely it cannot last
Letters Wed, 24 December 2025 at 6:30 am UTC·7 min read “The US Security Strategy should wake us up,” writes George Fergusson (“America first, Europe last? Why Trump’s security strategy demands serious debate”, The Herald, December 23). That is certainly true. The National Security Strategy is signed off by the Trump Commander-in-Chief with that trademark signature, so familiar to us from countless executive orders, which looks to me like a long barbed-wire fence interspersed with goon boxes. The strategy can be summed up in half a dozen words: “America first; make America great again”. Everything, absolutely everything, is seen as a business opportunity – the Western Hemisphere (the “Trump...