Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – June 6, 2025
Greetings from Tyler,
Donald Trump and Elon Musk have been at each other’s throats for about two days. If you’d have told us last week that we’d be in the middle of a terrible fight this week, I wonder who’d have believed it. Suddenly there are all kinds of questions. Personally, I think they ought to bury the hatchet and get on with saving the country. But this thing may get a lot worse before it gets better. What? Did they go from being on the same team to mortal enemies in warp time? Maybe there’s something we don’t know. Musk has accused Trump of being ensnared in the Jeffrey Epstein saga.
Enter Steve Bannon. He’s saying, according to the media, that Elon is a Chinese agent. I’m not going to pretend to know how this thing is going to work out, but one thing is for sure, the subject has been changed. Oh, what a tangled web… Now even Epstein’s lawyer says that he had no information that would damage Trump after Elon suggested there was information coming out that would damage Trump beyond comprehension.
It looks like they’re trying to destroy each other. But that’s where all the news has gone. If you want to know what’s going on in American politics, you have to check the foreign papers. It’s not to be found in the domestic press, at least not until the British papers have broken the story.
Last I heard the Democrats were imploding. But the subject has been changed. It looks like we’re going to be drug through the details of stuff we don’t even want to know about. It seems like all the nonsense we’ve lived through in recent years is going to get adjudicated, and we’re going to have to watch. Or at least hear about it.
Russia and Ukraine are doubling down on their war. If Ukraine is lucky they’ll just get out with the damage they’ve already sustained. But things appear to be escalating. Ukraine is sending drones to attack Russian fighter jets deep inside Russia. We hear of drones deep inside Russia, blowing up aircraft. The Capital of Ukraine is sustaining air strikes from Russia. It looks like the war is escalating, but who knows? Maybe they’re just getting in their last jabs to get our attention before peace breaks out. I’m hoping. Then again, maybe Trump doesn’t have that much influence half-way around the world.
Who knows what’s going on in the Middle East? Israel apparently is blowing up Gaza. Any thoughts residents may have of returning have been reduced to rubble.
From what I’ve gleaned, the Houthis have been chastened. The Houthis? What a terrible name. They’ve backed off in the Red Sea. They were routinely attacking ships, and now they’re not. Nobody’s on the ground over there, so we don’t know exactly. But it’s not pretty, and the main thing is they’re not attacking ships anymore.
Europe thinks it has the upper hand. They’re still saving the planet, and making arrangements they think will hamper Trump’s influence. Ukraine better get under control before they drag the whole world into this dispute.
Barring the thing in Ukraine growing, and it appears Europe is counting on it, we may not be on stand-by right now. But then we’re always on stand-by.
Mark
