ON THE TRUMP ANNIVERSARY:

What we were saying a year ago.
Fingers still crossed.

TRUMP WINS THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
Tragic!
One may ask how does it concern me. The same question could have been posed to the people living far away in Tobruk, Libya (?) in North Africa in the years of the rise to power of Adolph Hitler in Germany before he burst out on ALL his neighbours in 1939. Or indeed the people of the idyllic tropical paradise of Darwin, on the northern shores of far away Australia. The point here is that what you neither know about nor understand can hurt you deeply. For example how does a 25yearold youngman in Ogbunike, farmer, palmwine tapper, who had never been to Asaba, expect to be plucked at the Afor market as a British conscript in the year 1942, only to end up in Burma via Mombassa, Kenya to fight the Japanese, an enemy he had never heard of? This Trump thing is bound to be an illwind for friend and foe alike.

This is 2016 and the world today is much smaller than seven odd decades ago. The impact of modern telecommunications and hypersonic travel and armaments means that no one lives far from anyone else. My fear, which I pray will not come to pass, is that the mistake of the American people today and the many ones that a President Trump, not noted for his good temperament, will make in the days to come will haunt and destabilize the world order. Here I am refering to social, cultural, political and economic relationships.

Without stability on these fronts, we may have only the military option for all global issues. Put Russia and China in the mix and you have a potent brew. India and Pakistan may turn to the worse without a steady American hand to try to maintain a balance. There is so much more at stake than what the typical pu**y-pulling rough-neck thinks or even bothers. It goes far beyond American jobs and welfare.

If we ever needed prayers, it is now.
I fear, no be small!