Trump has lost it

I live in a college town, so I'm surrounded by people with Trump Derangement Syndrome. And oh, what gifts the President is giving them! He favors despotic Russia over the imperiled democracy of Ukraine; he announces a red line in Iran and promptly chickens out; and now he threatens war against NATO if Denmark won't give him Greenland, whose Thyng or parliament legislated for more years (roughly 950-1350) than the US Congress has sat in Washington.

Brilliant. And who wins from all this? Well, Vladimir Putin, of course, and the ayatollahs in Tedran. And behind them: the smirking Xi Jinping, sewing up trade agreements in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, and announcing that China is a "near-Arctic" power with navigation rights across the northern frontiers of Russia, Greenland, Canada, and the US.

Trump began his insulting letter to the Norwegian prime minister with the salutation "Dear Jonas" and signed off as "President DJT". (Why send it to Norway instead of Denmark? The very first sentence explains: "Considering your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize....") Somebody must rein him in, and it won't be our Vice-President, who if anything thinks less of Europe than his boss. That leaves the Secretary of State. Marco Rubio? Past time for you to speak up!