The question is, what comes next? He has become a martyr to the Republican cause and we could well see more violent incidents. Trump is stoking the flames as usual.
I wonder why he reacts so badly to anyone talking about his Lebanese ancestry. It's hardly a big deal to have ancestors that came from somewhere else in a multicultural place like Australia. As far as I know he's only against illegal immigrants, but I assume his grandfather came here legally, or at least not illegally at the time.
I ended up at Meekatharra once too and sat out a storm for two days. The plane was tied down in the open and I didn't expect it to survive the battering, but somehow it did.
I don't think `fitter' is the right word, more like `mean and callous' by the sound of it. You obviously did survive the experience however, so by your Darwinian definition, you proved to be the fittest.
I was not particularly happy about being conscripted but registered as required. My number didn't come up. My parents, having lived through the war in occupied Europe and my dad having fought the Germans were more worried that I was.
Watching the European leaders sitting around the table with Trump and speaking in turn about supporting Ukraine without getting Trump offside brings home what a weak individual he is. They all had to heap praise on him to bolster his own distorted view of his magnificence. It's really pretty sickening.
He probably dimly realises by now that he’s been done over by Putin, so now he’ll try and save face by picking a fight with Zelensky and blaming him for his own pathetic failure.