At the time of writing, according to the Wall Street Journal and many other sources, Trump was to address a joint session of congress, when he was expected to detail a plan to end the war in Ukraine and to lay out steps to combat inflation.

In marked contrast to the stance of European politicians, the president was also expected to call on Congress to approve more funding for his deportation campaign, thereby demonstrating his concern for the territorial integrity of his own country.

This is not the only difference in approach, but it is an important one. While European leaders blithely seem prepared to call on the while males (the predominant demographic) of their respective countries potentially to fight and die for “a quarrel in a faraway country, between people of whom we know nothing” – to quote Neville Chamberlain – that same demographic, it appears, must be willing to tolerate without complaint, its replacement by ethnically and culturally dissimilar immigrants.

Not more so is this evident than in Brussels – the political equivalent of a Babel-sized ivory tower – where the unelected (by the people) supremo of the misnamed European Commission has been full flow, telling us that “we are living in the most momentous and dangerous of times”.

The survivors of the latest car attack – this one in Mannheim – might have cause to agree, as might the many others who have seen law and order deteriorate under the onslaught of third-world immigration, with towns and city centres turned into perilous slums.

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